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Badly scared by the savagery of the rebellion, Portugal has begun to ease some of the more repressive practices that provoked it. But after a swing through the troubled land, TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs reports that Angola is still virtually a feudal Portuguese fief−and a tinderbox for further revolt...
...Still, there are passages almost worthy of Cervantes. A nun bemoans her sheltered life: "Apart from religious ceremonies, triduums, novenas, gardening, harvesting, vintaging, whippings, slavery, incest, fires, hangings, invasion, sacking, rape and pestilence, we have had no experience. What can a poor nun know of the world?" When two feudal armies clash, the impact knocks all their knightly paraphernalia to the ground. Instead of fighting, the knights scramble for loot, then make swaps. "What is war, after all," writes Calvino, "but the passing of more and more dented objects from hand to hand...
From Code to Cult. Though the merchant princes were beginning to make their appearance, church and court were still the major patrons. The great lords were losing their feudal powers to the state, and as if feeling the threat, they retreated into a world almost of make-believe. They made a cult of the ancient code of chivalry in which the most ignoble action could be described as a deed of honor. Etiquette was rigorous, and manners so sacred that a noble Alphonse and a lordly Gaston could spend hours politely protesting that the other should go first. Though convulsed...
...German East Africa, they were mandated to Belgium after World War I and administered as a single trust territory. Slightly larger than Maine, they lie along the slopes of the Mountains of the Moon between Tanganyika, Uganda and the Congo. For 40 years, Belgium tampered little with the feudal tribal structure of either territory and ruled through the giant-sized Watutsi tribe (average height...
Altering the Pattern. In Soriano's lifetime, the Philippines have begun the transition from a feudal agricultural society to a modern industrialized economy, and Soriano has been a leader in the process...