Word: feudality
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...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...
...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...
...third stage was marked by an increased demand for some kind of partnership with the colonial powers by the native intelligentsia. Local leaders joined with the feudal elite and the growing middle class in an effort to demonstrate their collective power. The United Gold Coast Convention was formed, but Nkrumah soon split away from the UGCC to form a mass movement called the Convention People's Party...
...Lagos bearing a coffin and a banner proclaiming "Tyranny Has Died." All political parties-including the deposed Northern People's Congress-swore their allegiance. Editorialized the West African Pilot: "This great country has every reason to be proud of the military, which has taken over the fumbling feudal and neocolonialist regime. Today, independence is really...