Word: tribal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...help longing to live in this clapboard paradise. . Until, that is, they find out what it is really like. The corruption beneath the surface in Blue Velvet is trendily psychosexual. In All My Sons it is economic and political. At the root of the play's evil is the tribal impulse that allows a man to think only of himself and his family rather than his duties as a citizen of the world. When a machine-shop owner whose patching over of defective cylinder heads sent 21 pilots to their deaths voices the repentant opinion that they were...
...interview, which touched on a wide range of topics, Kent-Brown said that he found it "unacceptable" that most Black South Africans who live in urban areas cannot vote in national elections. Under South African law, Blacks are considered citizens of tribal homelands and can only vote for candidates for the homeland governments. But most urban areas are not in the homelands and Blacks who live in them cannot vote...
Kent-Brown said he though adding a fourth representative body for the Black population would not work, because Blacks' would vote solely along tribal lines...
...third of their settlement to repurchase 300,000 acres of lost forest land. Another third was put into a trust and now provides each Passamaquoddy and Penobscot household with a $1,000 to $1,200 annuity. To help the Indians invest the remaining $27 million, Tureen set up Tribal Assets in partnership with Daniel Zilkha, 44, a Princeton friend and former Wall Street investment banker. Because of Zilkha's connections in the financial community, says Tureen, "we had access to capital markets in a way that Indians would never have had on their own." Says Zilkha: "These tribes were sitting...
Their biggest investment, though, was off the reservation. With an assist from Tribal Assets, the Passamaquoddies paid $16 million for New England's largest cement factory, the Dragon Cement plant in Thomaston, Me. Explains Zilkha: "The Indians want to upgrade their position in society as well as make money." One of their proudest moments came when a group of them toured their new factory. Says former Passamaquoddy Council Chairman John Stevens: "We almost couldn't believe the huge buildings. So many people working for us, calling us 'sir.' It was overwhelming...