Word: australasia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discussion of the notion of "Negritude" I argued that this concept does not deny that, on a technological reckoning, the cultures or civilizations of Negro peoples attained a lower level of evolution than the cultures of Asia and Europe, though were comparable to the indigenous cultures of North America, Australasia, and the island communities of the Western Pacific. I also argued that upon introduction to modern technological society, this fact necessarily produced a cultural inferiority complex among peoples of African descent...
...Talented unmarried women under 35 who are working in the arts" have been particularly invited to join in an experimental communal settlement in Australasia being organized...
...they might well have been tramping their own woodlands. There in the rain forests of southern Chile were vast stands of beech, remarkably similar to the trees of their native land. The damp Chilean glades were greenly upholstered with ferns and mosses almost exactly like those that grow in Australasia. Even swarming insects looked the same as the insects of home. How did delicate plant and insect life ever make the difficult migration across great southern oceans or the hostile icecap of Antarctica...
...Four are Dutch: Lykle Schepers, 56, in charge of manufacturing, research, chemicals; Luitzen Brouwer. 49, exploration and production; Arnold Hofland, 59, marketing, personnel and Western Europe; and Loudon. Three are British: John Philip Berkin, 53, the oil coordinator; Harold ("Tim") Wilkinson. 57, in charge of North America. Far East, Australasia and United Kingdom-Eire; and Frederick Stephens, 56, legal matters and the Middle East, who takes over the chairmanship when Loudon is absent. Shellmen agree that their Britons incline more to flair and intuition, their Dutchmen to patience and stolidity. Loudon presides over the mix. If he favors a project...