Word: haitianization
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...year on a near-starvation diet and ended up with $10 cash. Now farmers who know him are eager for the completion of the Artibonite project, so that they can follow his example. Reclaiming, leveling and watering the entire 80,000 acres will require at least nine years, Haitian agronomists estimate. But by that time, they hope to have the valley sown with such diverse crops as cereals, vegetables, peanuts, kenaf, tobacco and cotton. Like Dorneirl, other Haitian farmers will be able to rebuild their wattle & daub huts, buy new clothes and send their children to school for the first...
...congenial were Reser's relations with the country folk that when the Marines pulled out in 1934, he was the only member of the occupation force to be kept on in his post by the Haitian government...
...tiny veranda of his two-room, wattle-and-daub hut outside Port-au-Prince, a grizzled ex-U.S. Navy pharmacist's mate downed a tumbler of mahogany-colored Haitian rum. Through the low-hanging hibiscus and poinsettia came the first tentative beating of evening drums. To Stanley Henry ("Doc") Reser, Haiti's leading U.S born voodoo- practitioner, the sound was a call to ceremonies at the nearby temple in honor of Ogoun Ferreille, god of war and ironworkers...
...Sonny Griswold's American Bar in Port-au-Prince' occasionally for a rum-and-drum session with visiting U.S. bluejackets. He paints and sketches reads and talks with tourists and others who come to him for voodoo information.-Oldtimers have estimated that Doc has 10,000 Haitian friends. When asked if he ever thinks of going back to Utah, he says: "Why should I? I've got everything here...
...horizons. The first show of the series set the pace for the future: two original plays (The Badmen, by William Saroyan, and The Trial of Anne Boleyn, by Maxwell Anderson); excerpts from The Mikado, with Britain's famed Martyn Green; two short films (Witch Doctor, an authentic Haitian dance with Jean Leon Destine, and clips from an X-ray movie...