Word: feudal
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...Crusades, as Russian-born Historian Zoé Oldenbourg (The World is Not Enough, The Massacre of Montségur) says in this authentically detailed book of horrors, brought out both the noblest and the most despicable in feudal society...
...leaders, the National Council last December organized an investigative team to examine the operation. Their report, presented to the council's general board last week, praised the Ministry for serving a much-neglected minority, the Negro poor, and for justifiably keeping pressure on Mississippi leaders to change their feudal society. But the report also criticized the Ministry's failure to work with the local community, its less-than-candid activity reports to the National Council, and its fiscal casualness (1966 spending is $15,000 a month above the allotted budget...
Most of the film concerns rebellion led by the Marisa against one Mexican feudal-type baron named Rodriguez, whom the troupe discovers beating a serf. As the opening credits shows us, Brigitte grew up tossing bombs with her anarchist father; Moreau goes political for the first time when she falls in love with the Christ-figure revolutionary Flores (George Hamilton). In the closing moments of the film we get a fast sequence of castles exploding all over Mexico as the revolution prevails...
...should encourage any sign of mellowing in the Chinese revolution. Though Mao would hardly appreciate the comparison, Fairbank said that the Chinese leader actually more closely resembles the prototypical Chinese emperor than any of his heroes in the Marxist pantheon. Eventually, he said, the better side of the feudal Chinese ruler may reassert itself in his successors. China is still governed, after all, by a "great Confucian political fiction, the myth of rule by virtue...
...interior spaces-is not a freshly minted product. Le Corbusier, in his last buildings, was jutting monks' cells out into space, making air funnels into sculpturesque "light cannons." Britain's "New Brutalists" have made sinewy decoration out of external electrical conduits. Philadelphia Architect Louis Kahn has made feudal towers out of air intake and exhaust stacks. Today's architects, in making virtues out of plain necessities, may yet learn how to rival the medieval master masons who turned water spouts into sculpted gargoyles...