Word: feudality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...These miserable little places should never have been allowed to exist.' They are going to reject these nations with disgust. That would be a bloody disaster." Nations have to begin somehow; occasionally just plain good luck comes along to give them a boost. A few years ago, feudal Libya was written off as a hopeless non-nation-until oil was found floating beneath the deserts. Barren Mauritania may yet bloom from the rich iron and phosphate deposits in its crust. Some unlikely nations have been struggling along for many years-little San Marino smack in the middle of Italy...
...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...
...Playwright William Alfred's harsh unvarnished view that the turn-of-the-century Irish were bewildered ex-peasants yearning for feudal authority, a leadership that became polarized in two figures: the priest and the politician. The priest, astringently played by Barnard Hughes, is torn by a mixture of pity and contempt for his people, and he exerts his authority as though he were a bouncer in a perpetually unruly bar. The politician, an arm-twisting, Jim Curley-like charmer, played with resourceful guile by Tom Ahearne, has one key speech in which he punctuates a list of catastrophes with...
...usual historical novel is notoriously long on panoply and pomp. In this spare but sturdy tale, young (22) First-Novelist Cecelia Holland cuts away the familiar embroideries and tells the story of a wandering warrior-knight who rights for pay in the feudal feuds of llth century Europe, winds up under William the Conqueror in the thick of the slaughter at Hastings. Author Holland, who writes history as if her hero were watching it happen, en-capsules the medieval military mind: brash as plunder, elemental as blood...