Word: tahitians
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...well-known myth about the dominant American female is incorrect; "it seems to me rather the cult of woman, a little in the spirit of the troubadours. ..." When Remains explains to him that American men, though you may talk with them freely about the French or Chinese or Tahitian, have "a curious-and in a way admirable and touching-sense of modesty about their own women," he exclaims: "But in that case they are a wonderful race, these men! They have other gods besides their money and their work...
...Tahitian music has been largely Frenchified. The Fahnestocks could not find what they most wanted: a nose-flute. But Tahitians are distinctive guitar players, and have a trick of chanting double-talk to get in the groove before cutting loose. They also like to take a Western tune and Tahitify it. Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay was one the Fahnestocks gave them; it came...
Still later it became known that immediately on landing the General had taken command of the island's sympathetic police, had bloodlessly arrested a pro-Vichy Government clique of 40 Tahitians (mostly judges, lawyers and doctors trying to safeguard their Government pensions), had removed them to a soft-aired concentration camp. By so doing, the General had removed resistance to a Tahitian plebiscite of last September, when the island's population declared themselves against the Vichy Government and in favor of General Charles de Gaulle by a vote...
Rugged Pitcairn Island, the seagirt Pacific refuge of H. M. S. Bounty's, storied mutineers, heard nothing of Britain's last war until months after the outbreak. Word of it was finally brought to Bounty Bay by the crew of a Tahitian tramp. That was before a best-selling trilogy and a four-star movie made Pitcairn Island the most publicized hideout on the seven seas, and prompted a well-meaning, sympathetic U. S. to enrich the 200-odd hybrid islanders with all sorts of civilized niceties, including a powerful amateur short-wave radio station, VR6AY...
...Tahitian Rhythms (Augie Goupil and his Royal Tahitians: Decca), according to the collection in this five-record album, sound like a succession of rumbas, torch songs, foxtrots, military marches and old-fashioned hillbilly jump-ups. Weirdy-of-the-month...