Word: feudality
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...discern in the past a succession of levels of social awareness, like an ascending staircase. The age of religious wars ended when secular politics began to dominate . . . feudal politics ended when economic factors assumed overriding importance; the struggles of economic man will end by the emergence of the new ethical values of the new age . . . the new movement will re-establish the disturbed balance between rational and spiritual values...
...couple of student songs for Tannenbaum College (of this institution of learning, Ruby characteristically notes: "A feudal Icrd scattering largess among the peasants as he rides through the village in a coach-and-four is a philanthropist. The fact that the peasants are the source of his ill-gotten wealth makes no difference; he is a philanthropist. Which brings us around to the story of Carlyle Beasley, founder of Tannenbaum College. Beasley, like Huntington, Crocker, Stanford and Hopkins, made his vast fortune out of the railroad business. He was the owner of the Rappaport and Western Railroad, formerly known...
...Department No. 1 is presided over by stern, righteous, feudal old Cordell Hull, architect of the reciprocal trade agreements, believer in old-fashioned international law, a Cabinet officer who is politically unassailable...
...glorify the native-born workers who are in reality nothing short of tenant farmers so wonderfully portrayed in Tobacco Road? It is these very workers who are the target of Southern discrimination because of color and breeding. Why, therefore, does the State of North Carolina picture these products of feudal serfdom as glorious, happy Americans...
Thus the capital made holiday. In so doing it also honored the memory of Ch'ii Yuan, high-minded poet and statesman of Chu, the feudal state that covered much of central China some 2,200 years ago. Ch'ii sought vainly to ferret corruption from his government, was slandered and exiled. Heartbroken, he composed his famed poem Li Sao (Dissipation of Sorrow), then on the fifth day of the fifth moon drowned himself in the Mi-Lo River. Legend relates that kind fishermen tried to recover his body, thereby began the custom of the dragon-boat races...