Word: tribalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan's fade from the landscape he once dominated reveals the factionalism that riddles both parties. It is reflected in what has become the strange and somewhat tribal rallying cry inscribed on the banners of the 1988 campaign: HE'S ONE OF US. For some, the message is mainly regional: Michael Dukakis grandly quaffing a mug of clam chowder upon landing in New Hampshire from Iowa, as he tried to overcome the aloof smugness that seems plastered to his face; Albert Gore whistling Dixie while he waited for Super Tuesday...
Richard Gephardt has been wondrously able to transform himself from a Washington insider to a tribal populist. He speaks of the battle in us-vs.- them terms, casting himself as a crusader against the very same thems he was once proud to be a part of. For others, the message has cultural underpinnings: Pat Robertson identifying himself with God's elect, Jesse Jackson with the disaffected...
...soldier in the legendary tradition of Sir Richard Burton and T.E. Lawrence are recorded in his books Arabian Sands (1959), The Marsh Arabs (1964) and The Last Nomad (1980). These celebrated works are distinguished by a direct and bone-dry style that balances Thesiger's luxuriantly romantic relish for tribal peoples and desolate places. The Life of My Choice says goodbye to all that and good riddance to the 20th century and its airships, land vehicles and instant communication, which destroyed the silence and threaten a world Thesiger saw just in time...
...found Thesiger living simply in a mud- caulked house with a distant view of the Great Rift Valley escarpment. The shelter has a concrete floor, wire-mesh windows, no electricity and no well. There is a separate sleeping hut that the author shares with up to 15 villagers and tribal friends who, he notes, "snore like elephants...
...handful of committed student radicals who started SDS and similar groups in the early years of the decade, were the core and catalyst of the mass youth movement that powered the great civil rights and anti-war demonstrations of the mid and late Sixties, as well as the tribal orgasms of Woodstock and the Summer of Love...