Word: darwinism
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...town of Darwin an Arnhem tribesman named Jacala, serving a jail sentence for spearing a native chieftain, could see from his cell window the neon lights of a movie theater. When he was released, Jacala went back to his tribe, 400 miles away, still wondering about the movies...
Jacala persuaded 20 fellow tribesmen to return to Darwin. For 40 days they traveled, came at last to the movie theater with the neon sign, paid and entered. On a shiny screen, a white man was hugging and kissing a white woman. Jacala & friends disgusted, stalked out, walked 40 days home again...
...Darwin natives, constant moviegoers, could have told them of the standard native device for dealing with such pictures: natives obliterate kissing scenes by flashing electric torches at the screen...
...Darwin, Marx, Wagner-Jacques Barsun...
...open to the kind of amphibious warfare-land, sea and air attack-that the U.S. Navy has long discussed. Flanking her southward march on the right is Hong Kong, a better-equipped base than the Philippines' Cavite. Ahead of her lie Singapore, the stout secondary bases at Surabaya, Darwin and Amboina. This week Japan was pecking at some of these places, but she had not yet apparently risked an all-out attack on any. And before she could hope to grab and hold the Indies, she must reduce Singapore...