Word: feudality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...populous nation marked its sixth anniversary last week, it teetered on the brink of civil war. The cause of its problems is the age-old struggle between three dominant tribal groups: the ambitious Ibos of the oil-rich Eastern Region; the ebullient Yorubas of the cocoa-growing West; the feudal Hausas and Fulani of the semiarid "Holy North." Their differences are basic and, unfortunately, all too typical of the tribal divisions that plague other African nations. The Northerners are rigid Moslems, suspicious of outsiders, wary of progress, ruled by reactionary emirs whose palaces are made of mud and whose...
...properly revolutionary eyes left. The Red Guards even suggested that gold lettering be banned as crassly "capitalist." Henceforth, they ordered, all signs, inscriptions and customarily white traffic-cop batons must be rendered in red. All books not reflecting Mao-think should be burned; recordings of works by such "feudal-bourgeois-revisionist" composers as Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky must be banned. Also on the condemned list: taxicabs, toy wristwatches, sunglasses-and even happiness. A Mukden candy shop was ordered to drop the word happiness from its name, in keeping with the new austerity...
Scattered Resistance. Crowed the official news agency: "The revolutionary spirit of the Red Guards has sparked a prairie fire that is sweeping the whole of China, burning down all decadent influences of the bourgeois and feudal classes as well as all old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits." Official reports claimed that the Red Guards were received enthusiastically just about everywhere. In fact, reports from foreign correspondents at week's end stated that the Red Guards in Pe king had met resistance, resulting in at least 14 persons injured and perhaps nine deaths, and that troops...
...Western world, which either does not appreciate it or cannot afford it). One Greek word for a private person was "idiot," which, then as now, carried implications of ignorance -or at least a large indifference to civic concern. The tribe knew no privacy, and even the lord of the feudal manor lived in a swarm of servants, children and relatives, often all of them sleeping around the edges of the big hall where the fireplace was. Until the start of the 18th century, rooms in even the grandest houses led into each other. In those days, as Lewis Mumford...
Japan is the only Asian country so far that has met the challenge. In the 19th century, it made a dramatic decision to modernize and had the advantage of starting from a fairly advanced feudal base. The Japanese have developed a truly industrial society within many of the old forms. A working democracy coexists with a profound need for authority and group action, a consumer economy with esthetic frugality (one picture hanging at a time, in contrast with the Western collector's crowded wall). Industry is paternalistic and feudal-hardly anyone gets fired or quits-although that is beginning...