Word: tahiti
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ulysses. Also, he is editing and interpreting Robert Burton's Anatomy of Mel- ancholy. ?Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), was a painter whose art was inspired by the primitive in nature, modified by a theory of sym- bolism in form, color, design. He declared that only in Tahiti, whither he retired, could he find proper stimulation for his work. His enthusiasm for the picturesque South Seas was shared by his good friend, Robert Louis Stevenson...
...Lafayette Escadrillc and a journalist, and as a result starts two laps behind the field. He never makes them up. He travels from the little Iowa village of his birth to a prison camp in Germany, to forgotten islands of Polynesia, to Iceland and back to Tahiti. His first chapter set in the Iowa village and describing the various soldiers of fortune passing through on the sleepers gives promise, but for the rest Hall is too self-conscious, inadequate, and careless...
...sense of duty is not inspirational--I know, because I am writing this book-review from a sense of duty. Now a sense of duty is not inspirational--I know, because I am writing this book-review from a sense of duty. There came a time when even in Tahiti the rents had to be paid. He set out in leisurely fashion and produced the quite delightful and mellow first chapter. Then his portable typewriter clicked off the pages without revision, embodying scraps from his note book in toto, even including some doggerel verse--verse undoubtedly as fine...
...able to keep it up, however, and drops back to the earlier vein to tell us why he lives in Tahiti. He appears to have sufficient reason and convincing: Tahiti, by common consent, isn't such a bad place anyway...
...Australia, Premier Bruce announced, last week, the Parliament will adjourn during the fleet's visit (July 23-Aug. 6). On the homeward voyage, detachments of the fleet will scour the Pacific. Tahiti, Tai-o-Hae, Nukuhiva, the Marquesas and Galapagos, as well as practically every Pacific possession of the U. S. except Guam, will be visited...