Word: feudality
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...level, but these are entirely inaccessible unless the student is an apt swimmer, or comes prepared with waterwings; for a moat encircles our ivory tower. Here surely is the function carried out. As for the most itself, its purpose is at present rather recondite. Possibly a return to the feudal system is desired. But then, the question arises as to whether President Killian would be comfortable, and, accessible, atop his coal-black charger, girdled in steel armor by the edge of the moat...
...ultimatum came from the leaders of three religious-political sects* of South Viet Nam, an exotic consortium of religious fanatics, feudal warlords, uniformed hoodlums and racket bosses bound loosely behind an ambitious general who keeps pet crocodiles. Together, the sects have private armies of some 40,000 men. Their leaders, now losing the subsidies and prerogatives accorded to them by the French colonials, are dangerous. "Reorganize your government within five days," said their ultimatum. "Replace it with one that is suitable." The man at the desk bristled with stubborn irritation. "While we permit ourselves foolishness like this," he snapped, "there...
...things seemed to be going better in his struggle to save South Viet Nam (pop. 10.5 million), Nationalist Premier Ngo Dinh Diem last week ran into serious trouble. He was caught in an ambush set by the discredited but still powerful rearguards of his country's past-feudal warlords, religious fanatics and big-city hoodlums, with French colonials hovering indistinctly in the background. About 30,000 well-armed troops of the Cao Dai, Hoa Hao and Binh Xuyen sects (long subsidized by the French) were out in coalition against Diem's national government, lobbing mortar shells into peasant...
When the Reds seized power, they promised to do away with such "feudal practices" and to set up health centers, and they launched roving health teams to combat epidemics and contagious diseases. Peking now reports that since 1950 cholera has been wiped out, the incidence of plague reduced by 90%, of smallpox by 95%. Actually, the Reds' whole health program has foundered because of lack of doctors. The Reds' own press soon had to admit that aggrieved Shanghailanders had coined a tag phrase, "Three long, one short," to describe their medical care: long periods of waiting...
...Jacques Prevet's script and Marcel carne's direction make Cluny's defection from the diabolic cause later in the Picture seem natural enough-although the viewer may at first be left wondering if this is not just another evil ruse. Satan himself, played by Jules Berry, enters the feudal scene with gusto, elegant clothes, and a most attractive cackle of glee that make his part something out of the ordinary. His expert dematerializations are more to the credit of the cameraman...