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...villagers of Breton and Norman descent converse in varied patois. While Dutch is their official language, few Statians or Sabans ever use it. Many, however, do speak Papiamento, the merry island melange of Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, French, English and African dialects ("Bon tim ni un quenta ta coppé tras mi mucha muhé; bai hombre sushi, i lagele na paz. "Translation: "You have no business chasing my girl; go away, you nasty man, and leave her alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Still Pristine Caribbean | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

...fall season by vacating the stage to the Viennese. In the Green Room at intermis sion, New York's Leonard Bernstein (who guest-conducted Beethoven's Leonora Overture No. 3 at the concert) embraced Vienna's Karl Bohm and wondered aloud whether the two orches tras might not be brother or sister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Orchestras: How It Should Be Played | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

...Turkey come cheap. JAMMAT people figure they get a rifleman complete with pay, housing, food and all equipment for $500 a year. This compares to around $2,700 for the American doughfoot. The asker gets an allowance of about 12? a month, which he somewhat bitterly calls his tras parasi (shave money). The asker's boots and uniform look awful. The asker looks particularly bad on furlough. The army, very practically, gives him a sloppy, patched-up uniform for leave, so he won't tear up his fighting clothes. But there is a proud spirit in the Turkish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: TURKEY: STRATEGIC & SCRAPPY | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

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