Word: veldt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...complex, and poorly understood. One thing is certain, however--the society increases the survival chances of the individual. Cut off from his troop, the individual baboon will not last very long. It is easy to see why: physiologically, he is poorly equipped for solitary life in the African veldt. Compared to his greatest predator, the leopard, the baboon not very big, or very strong, or very fast. To exist, he has developed society--as an instrument of defense...
...invoked as a slogan, the spirit of progress and adventure pervades Kennedy's rhetoric. Again and again in a single speech, the Senator draws applause with an appeal "to help us those this country forward again." Its choice of adjectives--"strong," "vital," "energetic," "vigorous"--would have delighted Theodore Roose veldt. The Rough Rider has reappeared, pale and wan, as the new frontier man. His bugle blast has faded into an earnest call for "a society with purpose, a society with strength...