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...current version of the blues is chillier than a used Christmas tree lying in a gutter--Derek of the Dominoes has degenerated beyond shooting the sheriff (in self-defence, of course), to the dog days and pseudo-gospel of There's One In Every Crowd and thence to Shangri-La. Which (surprise, surprise) turns out to be a recording studio just raring to press this most recent rocking/R & B-ing/reggae-ing/reneging-on-his-followers onto vinyl...
...play takes place at a summer camp run by Otis Demarest. This middle-aged booster's Camp Edgewater is his idea of paradise, the kind of paradise sunny types have tried to pass off on campers since pullman cars first began to take troops of babies to synthetic Shangri-Las in the Berkshires and Poconos. Otis speaks exclusively in smiley cliches, trying to convince both his counselors and his campers of a dream of innocence that only he sees. Like almost everyone else in the play, he can never say just what he means...
...occasion aboard a rickety DC-3 that "slithered low over the Himalayan foothills, searching for the gap in the mountains through which we slipped into the Katmandu Valley." He has since reported on coronations of two other Himalayan monarchs, the Kings of Bhutan and Sikkim. Over the years, the Shangri-la quality of the mountain kingdoms has been diminished by the encroachment of Western civilization. "The one-room thatch shack that was the airport building at Katmandu's Gauchar Airport is long gone," Shepherd reports, "and the red brick complex that replaced it even has a duty-free shop...
...flapper. Still, while the lowerbrow in the schizoid Delderfield reader may thrill to such blood-stirring experiences as skinny dips and off-coast storms, his higherbrowed self can find plenty of social realism. Delderfield makes his reader see-and even smell-boarding-houses with names like Resthaven and Shangri...
Like the fictional inhabitants of Shangri-La, the Bhutanese believe in moderation in all things. Almost everyone, from the King himself to the peasants who farm the gentle, terraced hillsides, seems content with Bhutan as it is now, 95% medieval and 5% modern. In an effort to boost the economy and make life a little more comfortable, however, the government is planning to let in its first tourists-in moderation of course. Up to now, Bhutan's chief money earner abroad has been the sale of its colorful postage stamps, some of which are miniature LPs with the Bhutanese...