Word: tribalized
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There are numerous elements to admire in this movie, but the strength of a mother in the face of restrictive tribal tradition stands out. When Neria's brother-in-law, Phineas, refuses to take her daughter to the hospital as she suffers from appendicitis, Neria carries her to the hospital on her back. Mawuru bravely explores the world of injustice and emerges with the scales of justice balanced...
...they were looking, in the old hymn "Lord, plant my feet on higher ground." King was right: The content of one's character, not the color of one's skin, is what matters. Stop defining people by color, by groups (blacks, whites, Asians, gays). Stop practicing the politics of tribal identity. But you would have to rescind a universe of political correctness and poisonous identity politics in order to restore the old moral order...
...America has made a career of transcending itself, of leaving its worse selves behind. If it had not, the U.S. would have devolved into a sort of continental Beirut long ago. The worse self that should now be left behind may be the oldest residual American self--the racial-tribal. The continuation of the American idea depends upon the nation's transcending that. All Americans will arrive at civilization together, or they will not arrive...
...author's edged, chill language fits his subject. Of tribal elders in a bar, he writes, "The three older men looked like the frail members of a government in exile, deeply versed in the politics of failure." Of a newly alcoholic reporter who covers the killings, McNamee observes, "He had somehow acquired the psychic credentials of the drinker, the sad, proclaiming spirit." There is an eerie exactness in these passages that pins meaning to the wall with a knife blade. Now and then, as in his evocation of a mother's "low-keyed and costly cries of love," his reach...
Coltrane discoveries are continuing. The newly revived Impulse! label--which has already rereleased such late Coltrane albums as A Love Supreme--will release two more albums in October: the complete Africa/Brass sessions, in which Coltrane experiments with tribal rhythms, and Stellar Regions, mostly unreleased songs recorded with his pianist wife Alice only months before his death. The latest trove: 30 hours of raw tape found earlier this year, rescued as they were about to be trashed. Impulse! is negotiating to release these recordings starting next year. Dorn calls it "possibly one of the great musical discoveries of all time...