Word: tribalized
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...white chauffeurs), entertained Prime Minister Leabua Jonathan of the tiny new state of Lesotho at lunch in Cape Town's stately Mount Nelson Hotel-breaking at least three apartheid restrictions in the process. Last week Vorster's government announced that it will grant limited autonomy to a tribal area in South West Africa known as Ovamboland, thus making at least one hesitant concession to United Nations demands that it get out of the entire territory...
...unfriendly country if it were located in the middle of an optimum region for economic growth. And once regions were established, legislators could not halt aid to a specific country without hurting growth in several other small states. On the other hand, small states might have to overcome traditional tribal or religious conflicts in order to benefit from regional...
Zero Garbo. The selection of the right nude from among hundreds of transparencies is taken at least as seriously by the Playboy staff as, say, choosing the proper tribal dance for a lead page in the National Geographic. Dialogue between Art Director Paul and Editor Hefner when choosing pictures for the Playmates-of-the-year feature...
...restates McLuhan's increasingly familiar argument: the introduction of the alphabet 3,000 years ago, abetted by Gutenberg's introduction of movable print in the 15th century, turned mankind into the alphas and omegas of a giant cultural alphabet soup. The "seamless" and communal thought processes of tribal, preliterate man were fragmented; perception itself took on the rigid, abecedarian character of writing. Letters led to the "idea," which required structure-beginning, middle, end-and forced the writer or reader out of immediate experience and into an abstracted, objective remove from "group reality." According to McLuhan, the advent...
...global village," nor can the sequential thought patterns of three millennia be totally dissolved in a burst of electronic energy, however it is harnessed. With the sweeping generalization that delights his followers but irks so many anti-McLuhanians, he compares present times with the late medieval era, when tribal thought was giving way to print-processed "linear" thought, and finds in both the medieval theme of the Dance of Death and today's Theater of the Absurd a similar fear of changing technology. Says he: "Both represent a common failure: the attempt to do a job demanded...