Word: feudal
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...anti-fascist school he was known as the "feudal bourgeois"-too emotional and soft-and was referred to Lenin's words on the subject of human feeling: "I know nothing which is greater than [Beethoven's] Appassionato; I would like to listen to it every day. It is marvelous, superhuman music. I always think with pride-perhaps it is naive of me-what marvelous things human beings can do! But I can't listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid, nice things, and stroke the heads of people...
...Egyptians today are overpopulation and "the terrific disparity between the upper classes and the peasants." Frye asserted, Egypt, leader of the Arab world, has a population of 20 million and a large area of arid, unproductive land. He said that their economic mainstay is cotton, grown on large feudal landholdings...
...false to think of land reform as a panacea for Egypt," Frye said. Although it will relieve some of the feudal disparity between classes, "only a small percentage of the fellaheen will get land." An ominous note: "The cotton crop will fall to places...
...doubting Xavier's success. Starting out from Goa, he sailed and walked through southern India, Malaya and the Celebes, then to Japan. His only equipment was a breviary, his Mass kit and a large parasol to protect him from the sun. He impressed Malay sultans and Japanese feudal barons with his poise, and he could sway the commonfolk by his zeal. In three months on the island of Amboina he baptized 1,200. Some of his missionary conquests were permanent-there are Christian Indians today whose ancestors he converted. Others, like his great Japanese mission, were later nullified...
...popular press cried censorship and denounced the ban as "almost feudal." Even the unofficial Church of England Newspaper asked: "Why not let everybody see it who can? The monarchy in this country is not an underground movement." The Socialist Daily Herald huffed that "the ban reflects a stuffiness of mind utterly inappropriate to the 'new Elizabethan...