Word: feudal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...etiquette of specific situations in which the son is sure to find himself. All of Asia has been trained in this way-and all of Europe was, down to the Renaissance-Reformation period. Then, in Western Europe, complex and interdependent factors-population growth, technological progress, the replacement of the feudal system with more fluid social forms, the new lands across the sea-made tradition-direction obsolete. How were the young to be trained for the more varied and expanding new life with its demand for initiative...
...some speculation about what "to outlaw" might mean. Did it mean, as some said, that the Communist Party and/or its members could not sign leases, have bank accounts or sue in court? This kind of outlawry, stripping away all legal protection, is a medieval notion, inconsistent with post-feudal legal concepts and beyond the constitutional power of Congress...
Presence Denied. By contrast to Knowland's troubles with senatorial prima donnas and his relative lack of experience (nine years in the Senate), Joe Martin has been a Congressman for 29 years and commands great respect from the House's feudal barons, the committee chairmen. By his gift for teamwork, his influence over chairmen, his control of the traffic-regulating Rules Committee, and by the tightness of the House's rules, Joe Martin has kept his House in order...
...fend off his many greedy enemies with unified effort, gave the Fleming a sense of community responsibility not yet shared by other Europeans. A hundred years before the signing of the Magna Carta in a tent on a British meadow, the burghers of Saint-Omer forced their feudal overlords to recognize the rights and privileges of individual citizens in that tiny Flemish town. Many other such charters were granted in Flanders during the Middle Ages and kept secure in strong boxes in town halls topped by belfries. The proudest possession of any Flemish town came to be its bell tower...
...saddest thing in life," runs an old Japanese proverb, "is to be born a woman." In the feudal days before MacArthur, it contained more than a grain of truth; Japanese women then were the merest chattels, they had no civil rights whatever, and their menfolk seldom bothered even to address them by name. But in one sweep of the pen, the U.S.-dictated constitution of 1947 swept aside the centuries of tradition and placed the women of Japan-legally at least-on an equal footing with...