Word: feudal
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...Privileges are only a paltry make-believe, if not a fool's paradise," wrote Shri Hanwant Singh Bahadur, the titular Leader of Kings, King of Kings and Maharaja of Jodhpur. "Shorn of old feudal and autocratic character, a prince in free India should now rise to the level of Common...
Tory government or no Tory government. England is going to continue a socialistic state. "But Churchill would even be prepared to rule a Britain that was feudal." These were the comments of Samuel H. Beer, associate professor of Government, in last night's Election Forum at Adams House...
FRITZ BERG, 50, is the bustling prototype of the smaller German industrialist. Sole owner and boss of seven small metal works, he also heads the German equivalent of the N.A.M. A traditionalist, he fits right into the feudal atmosphere of his home town Altena with its margravial castle (1122) on the heights, its grimy, smoking industries below. Berg was a Nazi Party member from...
...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...