Playbill

October, 1971

So-called civilized man, unswervingly self-righteous in the conviction that his way of life is superior to all others, has both wittingly and unwittingly visited tragedy upon the resident natives of the Americas for nearly five centuries. It amounts to genocide in the name of progress--and it's not over yet. Veteran explorer Lewis Cotlow, who has been conducting scientific expeditions to the Amazon since 1940, finds in Twilight of the Primitive that the tribesman's plight there is worsening--and...