Word: tribe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with their own jargon in her previous book Please Touch: A Guided Tour of the Human Potential Movement (1970). Her new work is a tour of the most human of all movements, the family. She visits dozens of them around the country: a matriarchal black clan in Indiana, a tribe of patriarchal Greeks in Massachusetts, a conglomerate of patricians in Manhattan. There are Jewish families dispersed in the South and Midwest, farm families plowed over by vast interstate highway systems, single-parent families, and homes where both parents are homosexual. There are also extranuclear families-communes, and open households- whose...
...pile with Eleanor Roosevelt but a snapshot of her own father with the four-legged beasts. A chimp with a degree in Yerkish or Ameslan exhibits the ability to form concepts from his store of word symbols. The Indian who called a gun a "fire stick" or the remote tribe who named an airplane "steam chicken" seems to have employed a conceptual process similar to the chimpanzee who termed a duck a "water bird" or a radish "cry hurt fruit...
...even seems to be gaining a little under the bearded Savimbi, 43, a onetime philosophy student at Switzerland's University of Lausanne. He commands a ragtag army of 5,000 regulars and 12,000 auxiliary bushfighters that includes women and boys barely in their teens. Supported by the Ovimbundu tribe, which makes up about 40% of Angola's population of 6.2 million, Savimbi's forces now control a third of the country. They have gained an advantage by staging successful hit-and-run raids, involving small commando groups of 25 men, to keep government forces off guard...
...villagers in the area, at least one refueling vehicle came from Angola packed with jerricans of gasoline. From time to time, cars would stop, allowing passengers to trade loot for food with cheering Zambian villagers; many of the local residents, like the rebels, are members of the Lunda tribe. Impromptu food stands, selling fresh pineapples, corn meal and other staples, sprang up along the line of retreat. Some of the food was given away, but quite a few villagers were seen sporting new T shirts or shoes. There was a holiday air about the retreat. Even the missionaries who travel...
...Tribe added, "We are a group of people who favor detente. We do not have a cold war attitude, but we hope they will feel that we are becoming alienated by these actions...