Word: tribalized
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...presumably more pliable partner in a postapartheid government. So the supposedly more militant (indeed communist- allied) A.N.C. has been driven into the ironic position of demanding that the white government protect it from its fellow blacks -- starting with a ban on the Zulus' "cultural" weapons. Zulus say tribal tradition requires them to carry the spears, clubs and battle-axes in public, but the A.N.C. charges that they are being used to kill its supporters...
...Julie Schimmel, writing of Charles Bird King's 1822 portrait of Omahaw and other Indian chiefs who visited Washington -- an image that could hardly be exceeded in straightforwardness and respect for the sitters -- claims that "they represent a race that could perhaps be persuaded by rational argument . . . to abandon tribal tradition." There is not a shred of evidence in the painting for this sanctimonious interpolation. Elsewhere one reads that "rectilinear frames . . . provide a dramatic demonstration of white power and control." Sure, and gilt rococo ovals would mean drag queens had taken over the Senate...
...that the cold war is over, intervention need no longer be quite so suspect as a cynical gambit on the East-West chessboard. The concept of benevolent interference is already coming back into fashion. Last year, while Liberia was in the throes of its tribal self-immolation, five European envoys in Monrovia pleaded for the U.S. to send in troops to stop the killing. "The interdependence of nations," said an Italian diplomat, "no longer permits other nations to sit idle while one country plunges into anarchy and national suicide." Or, he might have added, mass murder at the hand...
...brick towers, security fences, dusty playgrounds, scrawny trees and empty lots. The housing project was the turf of local gangs with names like the Co-ops and the Young Guns, who settle their drug disputes with automatic weapons. When Muslim security guards were hired three years ago, the tribal warfare did not go away. It just changed, pitting the Muslims against the gangs. After a major drug dealer was killed a year ago, many of the remaining gangsters retreated from the complex...
...maybe we learn Freud's conception of human nature (SA 11), the 95 Theses (HSB-18), Aristotle's view of It Happened One Night(MR 34) and Rembrandt's Night Watch (L&A B-25). Someone else might learn about religious revivalism in Sri Lanka (SA 36), ancient Chinese tribal patterns (HS B-2), the theology of Maimonides (MR 19) and Duke Ellington's "Take the A Train...