Word: shangrila
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...zone has long offered an almost idyllic playground-comfortable, secure living isolated from the social traumas afflicting either the U.S. or Latin America. "If away you long to steal/ to a real/ Shangrila/ If your heart you wish to heal/ visit Panama," runs a song in Panama Hattie, a Cole Porter musical of a generation ago. For 3,500 American employees of the Government-owned Panama Canal Co., 9,000 G.I.s and 21,100 other family members, Uncle Sugar provides everything from commissary-and post-exchange privileges to bowling alleys and movie houses, swimming pools and tennis courts...
...write this like I said last week read the Real Paper or Harry's column Chris in the library Pollak's roommate the wise guy didn't say vomit he said garbage which is different and therefore offended me what did it do to you sent you to Shangrila I doubt it strongly coulda used a period there but I'm already in this way over my head how's your head doing bubby speaking of Todd Rundgren and Utopia at the Orf orforforf on May 7 at 8 pm the Bay City Rollers may 11 will...
...trolley line, the first in South Asia, was not finished in time for the celebration. But colored lights were strung like necklaces across the trees and temples of the capital, and fountains were brilliantly illuminated. Western hippies, who for years have regarded Katmandu as a kind of real-life Shangrila, were banished for the occasion; stray dogs were poisoned...
Such is life in Madagascar, the world's fourth largest island, where the phrase "Nothing ever happens around here" is not a complaint but an expression of supreme satisfaction. A French version of Shangrila, Madagascar was a French colony for 73 years, and the 40,000 Frenchmen who remain have seen to it that French food, fashions and pharmacies are almost everywhere. For all that, no one would mistake Madagascar for France. Director of Information Flavien Renaivo describes it as "L'lle-au-Bout-du-Monde" (The Island at the End of the World). Though it lies...