Word: quarrier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Martin Quarrier is a fundamentalist missionary who enters the jungle to save the Niaruna. He is a kindly but conventional Christian who truly believes that the Indians will burn in brimstone if he does not baptize them. He pays for his stupidity to the uttermost farthing. The Niaruna indignantly reject his religion, his wife goes crazy with the heat, his small son dies of blackwater fever, and as the tragedy concludes he is hacked to pieces by the only important Niaruna who calls himself a convert...
More than 500 actors tried to get into the group. Vaughan picked 15, including his wife, Helen Quarrier; none are of star rank but all are experienced. "Most of us are making sacrifices to come here," he says. "Our salaries are certainly not high. But I think we all felt the same motivation to try something better." He hopes to stay in Seattle the rest of his life...