Word: feudalisms
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TWELFTH NIGHT, by William Shakespeare, is a definitive treatment of the struggle between England's declining feudal landowners and its rising Puritan middle class, not to mention a funny and beautiful comedy. It's directed by George Gopen, who taught me Expository Writing and managed to make me the only person I've ever met who thinks Expos was a valuable course. Opens tonight at Winthrop House...
...nation, separate from the Russians, Poles, and other minorities around them. Although few people led particularly comfortable lives under the czars, toward the end at least, the Jews were probably most oppressed of all. Because they lived in cities, because they were traditionally the middlemen in Russia's feudal economy, and because when the emancipation of the serfs and the growth of banking and credit began to undermine the feudal economy, the Russian government closed most other doors to Jews...
...same time, Palestinian Arabs, reacting against British rule, were awakening a national pride kept alive for the last 25 years by the misery of Palestinian refugees kept from entering either the Israel their homes were in or most of the feudal or nationalistice Arab states which claimed to be protecting them. But Palestinian revolutionaries faced not a colonial government, like the one Angolans face today, not a government whose day-to-day operation depended on an all-pervasive racism, like the one South Africans face today, not even a government existing primarily as an agent of another country's imperialism...
...Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. After leaving that post in 1970, Eilts joined the faculty of the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pa., where he wrote eruditely on such obscure facets of U.S. Middle East policy as President James Buchanan's contacts a century ago with the feudal Sultan of Muscat and Oman...
...only affectionate companionship came from her grandfather, Lord Sackville, a shy, wood-whittling man who "loved children and believed in faeries." Knole was financed through what Nigel calls the "corner on millionaires and elderly artists" held by Vita's formidable mother. Vita retreated from family lawsuits into daydreams of feudal ceremony and tempestuousness...