Word: tropicalism
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...titular alias for the sprite who deprived the genteel and clerical Mr. Fortune, prepared to devote his declining years to ministering to the spiritual needs of the inhabitants of an idyllic South Sea Isle, of his religion, his sense of duty, and his peace of mind. Fanua, a tropic island, was apparently a fertile field for an efficient missionary, but in the end Mr. Fortune decided that there are gods and gods, and the importance they play in this world depends as much on their worshippers as on their own entities...
...which had thought itself immune from any emotion except a fervent hatred for the world, the flesh and the devil. His innocence precludes any anger and his simplicity demands friendship. As Mr. Fortune's man Friday he wanders through the book an absolutely unfathomable creature, a gracile dryad, a tropic faun--a maggot. In short, he is a masterpiece...
...feet, followed South America's east coast to the West Indies. They had covered some 17,000 miles, personally carried the "good will" of the U. S. to every Central and South American nation, arrived at the end of their long trip on scheduled time. Through tropic storms, landing in places where no plane had been before, four of these amphibian planes had made their way back home to prove that airplane travel is practicable in any place through every kind of weather. Over Buenos Aires two of the original six planes had crashed, two flyers were killed (TIME...
Every true vagabond feels a distinct urge toward the tropics. To sit before a typewriter and attempt to transcribe that urge is to essay the impossible. But nearly all residents of the more temperate zones have their dreams and visions of sunshine and palm-trees and tinkly temple-bells. From Kipling, Jack London, Stevenson and Conrad, we have gleaned bits of tropic lore, and still more recently the moving picture has brought to our very eyes the delights and delusions of life in perpetual summer. A very popular, successful, and excellent play of the last two years showed the dire...
...Long, silvery, black-and-bronze-barred "tiger fish" of tropic waters. (TIME...