Word: dinka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of them, says Toynbee, migrated to the moist Sudan, where their descendants probably survive as the primitive tribes of Shilluk and Dinka. But others, responding to the challenge of desiccation, resolved to change their lives completely. The valley of the Nile was then an all but inaccessible jungle of rank reeds, the lair of hippopotamuses and crocodiles. To live at all under such conditions required an effort beyond any that such men had ever made. Through the centuries, they drained the swamps, felled the reeds, diked the Nile, laid out fields. This response, Toynbee believes, was the genesis...
...show. As a onetime vaudeville headliner reduced to the want-ad columns, a sort of daftly faithful hound for the heroines, this wonderful clown does little that is new except find his long-lost son, in the picture's funniest shot. But when, leering fiercely, he sings Inka Dinka Doo, or when, in hyper-Dostoevskian mental conflict, he confides Did You Ever Have the Feelin' That You Wanted to Go, he gives pleasure of an intensity roughly equivalent to saturation bombing. Jimmy Durante remains living proof that demonic energy can be used for something better than breaking civilizations...
...late, great Clayton, Jackson & Durante act, able to concentrate on his own mad, multileveled comedy which Hollywood usually heavily diluted with other men's ideas. He brings on his old partner, Eddie Jackson, partly to strut, mostly to stooge; fetches his fans with old favorites like Inka-Dinka-Doo; he insults waiters, lambastes bus boys, beats up the band, heaves lamps, flings around telephones, rips apart pianos, surges to a high-slaughter mark of comic violence...