Word: somos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Psycho Somo-Tic. Huxley is prepared to concede that 2 billion may be company on earth, but that three will be a crowd. With the air of the fourth wise man, he says that "on the first Christmas Day" there were only 250 million. It took all the time since then until the Pilgrim Fathers to double the figure. When he was writing Brave New World, in 1931, world population stood at just under 2 billion. Today, "only 27 years later, there are 2,800,000,000 of us." People keep breeding, as it were, behind Huxley's back...
Said President Lukus Somo: "We have come to reaffirm our faith in the old native customs and in the spirits of our ancestors." The witch doctors had another, more practical purpose: they wanted government recognition of their professional organization...
...impress the government with the seriousness of their calling, they voted ?10,000 to set up a medical school in Johannesburg-to help "weed out the quacks and illiterates from among the medicine men," as Somo put it. The school will be in a two-story building, with shops for witch doctors and herbal-I ists on the ground floor. In its syllabus will be a course in "throwing the bones" -a method of diagnosis in which four-inch pieces of ivory or ox bone are dropped on a sanded floor...
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