Word: feudality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Feudal Friends. At Harvard, Galbraith began turning out books and, at campaign time, Democratic speeches. The experience persuaded him that diplomacy is no different from politics as practiced, say, at a political convention: "You must ask and argue but try to do it without robbing the other person of his personal sovereignty or self-respect...
...GRASS, by Isak Dinesen. The author, who is Denmark's finest writer and one of the world's best, writes a dry, elegiac reminiscence of the years she spent from 1921 to 1931 managing a coffee plantation in Kenya. Miss Dinesen's principal theme is the feudal harmony of white master and black servant, making the book seem removed by centuries, not decades, from the present...
...mayor of Boston is a vassal of the legislature and the victim of a feudal tax structure," Collins declared at a forum sponsored by the Joint Center on Urban Studies, where five "new mayors" attempted to explain where they find the power to govern...
...following three articles, Richard Price describes what Cornell University has done in one Peruvian community to offset an anachronistic feudal system that may lead the country to revolution, and contrasts such modern changes with the ancient but prevalent custom of "trial marriage;" Renate Rosaldo views with alarm increased feelings of anti-Americanism in Ecuador; and Jack Stauder describes a way of life in the "hot country" of Mexico that has remained unchanged over the centuries. The writers were among eight Harvard and Radcliffe students who spent the summer living with and studying Indians in Peru, Ecuador, and Mexico...
...days of labor every week in return for a meager plot of land on which to live and farm. A "serf" mentality, inability to make decisions, and complete distrust of outsiders after centuries of being cheated, beaten, and exploited made progress impossible. Vicos and many similar haciendas remained feudal anachronisms in a rapidly changing country...