Word: feudal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...college professors for their narrow culture, limited imagination, and "typically plebeian cultural interests outside the field of specialization." In his new book, "White Collar," just issued by the Oxford University Press, C. Wright Mills, associate professor of Sociology at Columbia, criticizes graduate schools for often being "organized as a 'feudal' system: the student trades his loyalty to one professor for protection against other professors...
...wife of 25 years found the new freedom strange at first, then heady and engrossing. She had been an old-fashioned bride (the bridegroom had chosen her by photograph), a subservient wife & mother (three children), sheltered by the taboos of a feudal-minded patrician society. Her most daring departure from tradition had been to learn modern dancing. In her first days as a commoner, while her husband tended his fowl, she gave dancing lessons to other former lords and ladies in her living room. The dances became parties, and the parties moved to the fashionable Industry Club. Mrs. Kacho began...
...Banned from Canton's Communist schools as "feudal and reactionary": Confucius...
Peng: Another thing. There are despots in the markets, among fishmongers, real-estate brokers, water carriers, and night soil scavengers. How shall we cope with these feudal remnants...
Categorical Imperative. Vis-à-vis Japan, there were variations of misunderstanding. The Japanese were "polite, industrious little people" until Pearl Harbor, brutal savages until V-J day, have been enthusiasts for democracy since. Warns Maurer: beneath surface "democratization" lurk the fixed feudal habits of centuries. A good Quaker by faith, and no Cassandra, Herrymon Maurer believes the West can retrieve its errors if it recognizes that "other persons . . . must be treated as ends in themselves, not as means to some other...