Word: feudal
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Twentieth Century man, though often lonely, does not live alone. His existence is tied to an ever-increasing number of organizations which, like feudal castles, dot the 20th Century's landscape. They are created by the simple fact that man can no longer alone cope with what Churchill calls the 20th Century's tides and tornadoes. What happens to man in this situation was the problem discussed by the panel on "The Role of the Individual in a World of Institutions...
...laga, where feudal-minded landowners have long held the workers in hungry ignorance, has the lowest percentage (40%) of practicing Catholics in the country. In the uprisings of 1931, 36 Málaga churches were burned; during the Civil War the Málagans killed every priest. It was an ideal place for the new bishop to set up the kind of school he wanted, where priests could study social problems. Such old-line prelates as Seville's Cardinal Segura y Saenz (TIME, March 7) denounced the venture as "pernicious." But in January 1948, with 14 students, Bishop Herrera...
...justify the Roman Catholic Church's ownership of more than one million acres of land, on which a hundred thousand tenants have been living like medieval serfs. The present government of Hungary stood for social justice and Christian democracy when it took the land away from the feudal bishops and gave it to the freed serfs...
...Democracy" (1940), Mao carefully explained how he intends to rule China. The pamphlet is a clear statement of the "soft" line which the Reds use in a "given historic phase,". i.e., until they are strong enough to use brass knuckles. China, says Mao, is still largely a "feudal" country. Before it can have its Communist revolution against the bourgeoisie, the bourgeoisie must first have its revolution against "feudalism." These two separate steps (which occurred centuries apart in Europe) can, in China, be blended into a continuous process. But the first step is not democracy in the Western sense: "The coming...
...Beck is not satisfied with his vast feudal barony beyond the Rockies. He is reversing the historic admonition of Horace Greeley. He is coming East. Already he has left large footprints in the Indiana cornfields and on the seat of Dan Tobin's pants...