Word: shangri
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long as the world has been turning, dissatisfied thinkers--philosophers we term them--have envisioned Utopias, Paradise, Fountains of Youth like Hilton's "Shangri-la". The Utopia of the young Englishman is situated obscurely beyond the last bit of civilization amid the white mountains of Tibet. To this impossible place is brought kidnapped Robert Conway, England's Eden-to-be. The High Llama, a French priest who stumbled upon Shangri-la in 1713 and claims to be over 200 years, old, informs Conway that he is to guard like a monk of the Middle Ages the treasures of the world...