Word: shangri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Charles Suydam Cutting, 83, naturalist and explorer, who in 1935 led an expedition to Tibet's remote, Shangri-La city of Lhasa; of a cerebral hemorrhage; on Chappaquiddick Island, Mass. In 1925, Cutting set out for Central Asia on the first of many expeditions in search of rare animal species. A decade later he made the most famous of all his journeys when, after five years of plying the Dalai Lama with gifts, he was invited to visit and crossed the Himalayas to the nearly inaccessible 7th century city of Lhasa...
...James Hilton's 1933 novel Lost Horizon, Shangri-La was a valley of delicate beauty and perfect serenity set against a backdrop of soaring Tibetan mountains. To Movie Producer Ross Hunter, Shangri-La is Burbank, Calif. The mountain range is only 600 ft. long (not bad by studio standards) and made of plaster; in Hollywood, serenity is a realm that lies only beyond the fourth martini or the third joint. Otherwise, Hunter's Shangri-La-the set for a new musical version of Hilton's novel-has it all over the novel, as well as Frank Capra...