Word: feudality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...author of Japanese Inn (but no kin to the U.S. innkeeping clan). Half of the book, and its heart, consists of 40 color plates taken from two Japanese scrolls of the time. Such scrolls, which unrolled horizontally up to 40 ft., served as the picture books and newsreels of feudal Japan. To document Perry's arrival, and satisfy their feudal masters' incorrigible curiosity, Japanese artists swarmed aboard Perry's six black ships, sketching virtually everything in sight with swift brush strokes on mulberry-bark paper. Their captions are often as eerily strange as their pictures, which confirmed...
...religious matters. As the 39th rector of Al Azhar, Mamoun's responsibilities are even more impressive. The post carries with it the titles of Grand Imam and Sheikh of Islam, which makes Mamoun the nearest thing to a Moslem pope. Yet with Egypt struggling to slough off its feudal ways, he must also guide the university toward turning out the educated elite essential to run a modern nation...
...death is forced upon him, largely as a diversion for the courtly company, a seasoned old fighter Tsugumo (Tatsuya Nakadai) arrives seeking vegeance. The Tragedy unfolds austerely in flashbacks framed by Tsugumo's rather wordy debate with Lord Iyi's chief retainer, whose ridgid adherence to a feudal military system is summed up by the phrase: "In time of peace, ther is no hope...
...went last week throughout Bolivia. In calm, peaceful balloting, the Andean nation's voters turned out to elect Paz to his second straight term and his third since the 1952 revolution that toppled the country's feudal tinmining aristocracy. All threats of anti-Paz demonstrations, violent strikes, even hints of an assassination attempt, proved empty. Early returns gave Paz 677,000 votes, a clear majority of the country's estimated 900,000 eligible voters and more than enough to secure his mandate for another term...
When the Marquis of Vélez, a man of magnificence, brought in a handful of Italian stonemasons to work on his patio, he was bringing the Renaissance to the feudal, long-Moorish plains of Andalusia. He was only 28 when he ordered the work begun in 1506, but the marquis was a Latin scholar and an eager follower of Columbus' early voyages to the "Western antipodes." His patronage made the patio a triumph of transition from darkness to light...