Word: feudality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...associate professor of Government said last night that President Charles de Gaulle's way of "governing in the grand feudal manner" hasn't done much to compensate for the disintegration of French political institution caused by the Algerian...
...suppose a Marxist analysis would classify the Europeans as a sort of feudal aristocracy, the Indians as the bourgeoisie, and the Africans as the not-so-urban working class oppressed by the other two groups. The trouble is that such a "Marxian" analysis neatly coincides with the racial division. And this is the only real threat to a temporarily stable situation--that the Congress, or some other faction, might rouse the latent hostility a large proportion of the African population bears toward the other races, and turn out a government which has created a remarkable spirit of cooperation among...
...revived. The dream of order and unity once embodied in the Rome of the Caesars lived on through the Middle Ages, not only in the Roman Catholic Church but in that embattled but strangely viable anachronism, the Holy Roman Empire. Even after it disintegrated, and the last remnants of feudal internationalism gave way to popular nationalism, the European idea remained; and even if Europeans themselves at times forgot it, the rest of the world could not. For most of 2,000 years the culture, commerce and conquests of the peoples of Western Europe shaped the world's destinies. European...
Rajah Ide Anak Agung Ngurah Agung was a popular feudal lord among the jolly citizens of his Balinese principality. The people of Gianjar loved him for the zest with which he lived and loved. He enjoyed great feasts of good food and was a connoisseur of cockfights. He kept four official wives and some 40 concubines. Before dying, he ordered for himself a Karye Pitra-Yadnje Palebon first class, the most festive form of cremation ceremony practiced by the Hindus of Bali. Though President Sukarno of Indonesia (who is part Balinese himself) deplored the celebration as an extravagance...
Border Squabble. Though all this activity is altering the faqade of Afghanistan, it has had little effect on the nation's creaking social and political structure. Afghanistan is still ruled by a feudal family, despite the forms of Cabinet and Parliament. Hard-eyed, tough-minded Daoud is the cousin of Afghanistan's retiring King Mohammed Zahir Shah; Daoud's brother is Afghanistan's Foreign Minister. His power rests on the support of the army and his fellow aristocrats (when he took power, he was careful to assemble the tribal chiefs and get their endorsement...