Word: tahiti
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back to Dinner Jackets. Michener writes with genuine affection for the island natives and their simple, relaxed culture. But he warns paradise-hunters and dreamy would-be beachcombers that the cost of heaven-on-earth comes high. Said a Tahiti businessman: "We want the rich tourists, not cheapies who have a high time on five bucks a day." Michener's own estimate: "You can get by in almost any part of Polynesia for only 50% more than you pay in Illinois. In Tahiti, of course, the cost is twice as much...
...with an If. One day in Rabaul, Author Michener talked over with his wife the places they had seen, the people they had met. Their conclusions: "We would be willing to live on almost any Polynesian island. We'd think ourselves lucky to be able to live on Tahiti or Rarotonga. We could enjoy a year or two on even the loneliest atolls. The inconveniences would be offset by the joyous life-patterns of the people who would share them with...
Pagan Love Song (MGM) casts Esther Williams adrift in the shallows of a musicomedy set in Tahiti (and filmed on Hawaiian locations). Esther plays a well-to-do Tahitian half-caste who meets, loses and finally gets a plantation heir (Howard Keel) newly arrived from Ohio. In the full flush of health, she glows in almost every tint of the Technicolor spectrum, swims not only on the water and under it but also (in a dream sequence) in the sky. In lieu of comedy, Actress Williams and Singer Keel laugh with unconvincing gaiety on the flimsiest excuse. The score consists...
...Cook and his men did turn up their share of marvels. Europeans were amazed when they read such things as Cook's anthropological notes on Tahiti: "One amusement or custom ... I must mention, though I confess I do not expect to be believed . . . More than one half of the better sort of the inhabitants have entered into a resolution of enjoying free liberty in love . . . The men will very readily offer the young women to strangers, even their own daughters, and think it very strange if you refuse them ..." The news of islands where sex and sin seemed...
...have long known about the multiple readership of copies of TIME, and the following communication from Pacific Edition Subscriber Clifford Kruse in Papeete, Tahiti, helps confirm...