Word: tribalization
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...while Dreiser's sincere plodding and plodding sincerity irks us about as much as over-sophisticated brevity, we do not find it necessary to retire to the bush and there pounding a big tribal drum, gather cohorts to slay the Emperor Jones of American literature. We are not fanatical about Dreiser. As far as we are concerned, he can make his way through any jungle of Lethiopian illiteracy without wasting his silver bullet. All we care to do is to leap out on him at an unguarded moment and make him fire off one of his lead slugs in vain...
...above Jarabub. They dropped packets of leaflets by the hundred. The Senussites picked them up and stoically absorbed the information that an Italian army was marching upon them, but that they need fear nothing since the Italian commander pledged himself to respect their holy places and to tolerate their tribal and religious customs...
...Treaty of Ghent in 1814 the United States agreed to restore to the Indians all the rights which they had enjoyed in 1811. Great Britain claimed that the Canadian Cayugas had kept up the tribal organization, and were entitled to the whole amount since 1810 and in the future. They claimed $1,000,000 with interest. The United States claimed that it was for New York to determine what the "Cayuga Nation" was, and that the Treaty of Ghent did not enter into the case...
Operations amid the rain-soaked sloughs of Riffland (TIME, Nov. 16 et ante) were featured recently by the surrender of 800 tribal families to the French, in the region of Ouezzan, northwest of Fez. French communiques stated that the power of Abd-el-Krim, dauntless Riffian leader, is rapidly waning, as the Semadjas and other powerful tribes are submitting to the French. In the New Republic, U. S. weekly review, Poet Witter Bynner* wrote as follows...
Travelers recalled that "Sultan" El Atrash dwells like a feudal lord in a tribal castle, "with walls more than a metre thick," which is perched upon a rocky crag of the Jebel Druz.** It has been alleged that he regards the whole Franco-Druse war as having sprung up because he killed a French officer "to avenge the arrest of a tribesman who was the Sultan's guest." Since that time (1921), El Atrash has employed against the French not only his temporal authority, but the influence of the religious cult which distinguishes his fellow tribesmen, a mixture...