Word: tropicalism
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...There is no word for artist. A man is a stone carver, a wood carver, a painter, a goldsmith; that his work will be a striving for the beautiful is taken for granted. But charming though it be, Bali is no saccharine Utopia, monotonous with felicity. As in other tropic countries, milk and honey come in cans. There women grow old and shrink to hideous phantoms of themselves...
Edward of Wales, suntanned, pipe-smoking, clad in rush-stained tropic gear, stood his ground, cranked his cinecamera while his comrades shot down a charging bull elephant 20 yards away...
Career: His father Hiram, descendant of Thomas Bingham, Connecticut settler of 1650, was a pioneer missionary in the Gilbert Islands. While Bingham Sr. pushed deep into the tropic wilderness to translate the Bible into heathen dialects, his son remained in Hawaiian schools. He was sent to the U. S. at 18, was graduated from Yale in 1898, returned to Hawaii to serve briefly as superintendent of Palama Chapel Mission, as chemist at Molokai for American Sugar Co. A year later he returned to the U. S., studied at the University of California, at Harvard. Equipped with a Harvard...
...When photographing dangerous animals, Mrs. Johnson, an expert shot, stands guard beside him. Once they spent 14 months cruising in a 30-ft. ketch with an engine so faulty that no one could sleep below on account of the fumes. Lashed to the hatch, they slept on deck through tropic storms. They say they spent one of the happiest times of their lives floating on a raft down a river in Borneo...
...Marine Corps does not sing Christmas carols. When it is Christmas in the Marine Corps, "the toughest soldiers in the world" on foreign duty sometimes startle the natives by dressing a Christmas tree under the tropic sun, or?as in Nicaragua last year?by knocking together a make-believe chimney out of packing boxes, filling the "hearth" with tinsel for fire, and hanging up their biggest socks to be stuffed with joke presents. But hardboiled fighting men on the outer marches of the U. S. Empire have little use for hymns of peace. More likely are they to drown...