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  • Jazz under the stars
  • City and urban life
  • On a lonely walk home in the dark Silver encounters many disturbing city scenes: the police hunting down and killing Rags, a well known criminal; a woman shot down by unknown assailants as she spoke about political matters; and Babu meeting...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Association of Universities of the British Commonwealth meeting at Wairaki, New Zealand
  • Principals (University) - Caribbean Area, English-speaking; College administrators - British Commonwealth; Taylor, T. W. J.; Associations, institutions, etc. - Congresses; Association of Universities of the British Commonwealth.
  • *The Association of Universities of the British Commonwealth meets at Wairaki, New Zealand in August 1950. Posing in this group shot are , front row from left to right; Prof. Mckinnel (Natal), Sinha (V.C. Patna), Currie (V.C. W. Australia), Sir R....
  • UWI Historical Photographs Collection
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  • Garnish with parsley or candid shot of Androcoles--with lion insert
  • Animals - Folklore ; Family relationships
  • Jeremy, a lion tamer, was desperate for a new job after an attack on him by Sasha, the lion, and also because he was tired of having to eat parsley to get rid of the scent of the lion or else no domestic animal would come near him. Jeremy’s cousin...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Christmas Eve
  • Christmas stories; City and town life; Rural life; Interpersonal relations; loss
  • Christmas Eve is usually a time of food, laughter and good cheer, but for some like Connie, there is little cause to celebrate. In the country, she listens to her family’s chatter as they express their wishes for a better new year. Mass Jim talks...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Hot water
  • City and urban life; Interpersonal relations
  • A variety of scenes from city life: a vagrant arrested for loitering sentenced in court the next day; three mischievous boys playing on the beach; a man courting a somewhat reluctant nursemaid; an attempted blackmail that goes awry; a pregnant...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Still life with Oleanders
  • Family relations; Death ; Childhood and youth
  • Thaddeus, a young boy, mourns the passing of his grandmother as he soon realizes that his life is about to change and those of his adult relatives too who must each work through their own problems brought on by the old lady’s death.
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Start of something again
  • Man-woman relationship; Interpersonal relations; Hurricanes
  • Duckett and Silver meet regularly at their favourite restaurant to talk about art and politics as the city grows restless in the aftermath of a devastating hurricane. During this time, Silver is flirting dangerously with a married woman right...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Thunderhead
  • City and town life
  • The author provides short insights into the lives of different people in the city at a time of social turbulence: Joie and Sam looks forward to Christmas together but tragedy intervenes; a seventeen year old boy furtively tries to seduce a girl...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Ed is coming home
  • Marriage; Man-woman relationship
  • Joie keeps her husband fully informed about their neighbour who has a husband in New York and is left in Jamaica to cope with two small children. Joie feels sorry for her, but Sam less so as he notices the regular visits to their neighbour of a man...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • World's End
  • Death; Loss; Fathers and sons
  • The old man’s world seems to have come to an end with the death of his donkey, his only means of making a living. As he and his son inform the regular customers on his donkey cart route, a few show sympathy but most appear indifferent. Only when he...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Landscape with figures
  • Photography
  • The photographer waited patiently for the perfect shot of the fishermen down by the sea, but the picture changed suddenly when shortly afterwards he was confronted by these same innocent-looking folks who now wore menacing looks as they ...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Sanctuary
  • Jamaica - History ; Nationalism ; Morant Bay Rebellion
  • In face of the uprising being led by Bogle and his men, a farming couple took solace in the knowledge that most of the people in their village had no quarrel with the Crown and so they would be spared the wrath of the British soldiers....
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • St. Lucia - Canaries, a village.
  • Student activities; College students - Travel - St. Lucia; Villages - St. Lucia.
  • The undergraduates not only enjoyed the beauty of St. Lucia, but witnessed its sorry side also. This photo is a close up shot of women washing in a river, with clothes left on its banks to dry. The river is near Canaries, the poorest village in St....
  • West Indian Journey of a 1961 undergraduate

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