Word: sikkimization
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...Baltimore Oriole fans to the end-dutifully led two elephants around to the front of the Capitol. Riding the pachyderms and still gloating over the triumph of the Pittsburgh Pirates were Pennsylvania Republican Senators Hugh Scott and Richard Schweiker. Later, Senator Scott met the visiting King and Queen of Sikkim and told them about his lofty ride. "Didn't you use a ladder to mount?" asked the Queen, onetime Manhattan Debutante Hope Cooke. "In Sikkim, we always use a ladder." Said Scott: "We like to rough it in our country...
Firewater Legend. The authors decant jeroboams of evidence to support their contention that what society expects of the drinker efficiently polices the uninhibiting effect of the drink. The Lepchas, a Mongolian tribe found in the Sikkim Himalayas, enforce incest taboos of astonishing complexity: a man may not couple with his wife's mother or elder sisters, the wife of his wife's older brother, the wives of his sons and younger brothers, and so on. On the annual rice-festival night, when everyone gets bleary on the native brew chi, sexual abandon is not only permitted but practiced...
...photographed them assiduously even as he studied for a diplomatic career. Later, in his diplomatic role, he accompanied the late Jawaharlal Nehru on a visit to Ladakh and there saw paintings and sculptures that few outsiders had ever seen before; and he had comparable luck in Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim. The divergence from traditional Indian art fascinated...
...blossoms among us." Today it is clear that at 28 the whispery-voiced Gyalmo (Queen) has not only blossomed but put down sturdy roots as well. Her two children, Prince Palden, 4, and Princess Hope Leezum, 18 months, are thriving, and the Gyalmo almost singlehanded has succeeded in reviving Sikkim's long-dormant cottage industry. Sikkim now exports to the world, and two chic Manhattan stores carry deep-pile rugs and gold and silver jewelry painstakingly made by native craftsmen...
...Chogyal travel in the West for about two months a year, which helps to overcome any surge of homesickness, but Hope admits that she sometimes misses "cheese, the Sunday New York Times and the sea." Still, those are hardly important. Hope says: "My happiest times are right here in Sikkim. Being a queen is nice because it gives you a whole fabric, a structure, and because there is so much we need to do. I feel accepted, very comfortable, very inspired and completely happy...