Word: tropicalism
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Resources: A lush northerly tropic with fertile plains, great rivers, high, tree-covered mountains and volcanoes, the Philippines are an agricultural hothouse and a treasure chest of only partially exploited minerals (copper, gold, chromite, manganese, iron, some coal). Properly developed, they could support perhaps 100 million people...
They find something of both, and-far rarer in historical novels-they also find life, a world of real people, growing thick as thorn bushes across their tropic path. Van Sterteen falls in love with a Spanish girl so proud that she will marry him and bear his child, but will not lie and say that she loves him. At the end, she goes to her death for a brigand whose only caress was administered with a horsewhip. Saint-Benoist is caught up in a struggle to save his soul. Oldhorse, the man with a vision, drives...
...flocked to the Ritz. So did New York society. It was the scene of endless balls, receptions, cotillions. When Barbara Hutton came out in 1930, the Ritz's ballroom was decorated with $10,000 worth of eucalyptus trees; for another coming-out party it was transformed into a tropic jungle-with live monkeys. But last year, after four decades, the management of the hotel announced that the end had come: the Ritz was to be demolished to make way for a 25-story office building...
...Night: Escape. By evening the Communists, packed in a tight circle, were being dive-bombed and strafed by two Bearcat fighters from Saigon. Then came the tropic darkness, and clouds to obscure the moon. The French thought they had the noose drawn tight. Not until next morning did they find out that one French unit had failed to reach its planned position on the river. Through this gap the Communists had escaped in the night...
...Central America has been a raffish sanctuary for some of North America's rarest wild birds. Some went there to evade U.S. justice, some were shoestring promoters brewing or forgetting get-rich-quick schemes, and some were merely fugitives from an over-mechanized world, attracted by such tall tropic yarns as Porter himself later spun under the name of O. Henry.* As a group, they answered philosophically to the name of Tropical Tramps. Since World War II, their ranks have been swelled by scores of footloose veterans...