Word: feudality
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Whether this confusion is on the part of those protesting the monument or those proposing it, I do not know; if the concept of the memorial was a romanticized eulogy to those who died attempting to artificially resuscitate the antiquated and cruel feudal system of the Old South, objectors have excellent grounds for opposition. However, a simple recognition that some of Harvard's sons died wearing grey does not seem to me (and admittedly I am a white Southerner with Confederate ancestors) particularly offensive...
This extreme awkwardness of construction makes Dreams, which belabors the smugness and provincialism of Danish society from feudal times to the present, seem far longer than it is. There are passages, not murky but mightily centrifugal, in which the reader's eyes slide off the page. And in something like equal number, or a bit more, there are set pieces, two or three or several dozen pages long, that are among the funniest satirical sketches seen in years...
Ufortunately, the Senate's medieval answer to these issues will prove at least as damaging to this end as the Clinton-proposed spending cuts it intends to reverse. Far from enshrining a responsible program of U.S.-led multilateral leadership in global security, it demonstrates an ill-timed lapse into feudal self-interest. Instead of upgrading the rapid-deployment and flexibility potentials of our military task-forces in dealing with local and regional emergencies more efficiently--whether in Haiti or the South China Sea--the new bill announces our increasing ideological immobility...
...week he must respond to a 27-count complaint issued by the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission. The panel charges that James failed to report on disbursements from his political war chest, and it has recommended fines of $44,000. "What's going on here is like a feudal system between lords and vassals," says Essex County Executive James Treffinger. "It's Jefferson's worst nightmare of what can happen in a democracy...
Today a fervent Polish fealty -- part feudal, fiercely loyal -- attends John Paul in the Vatican. The five black-robed nuns who cook his meals and do his laundry are members of the Servants of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which is based in Cracow. More important, one of the Pope's two secretaries -- and the one who controls all access to his boss -- is Monsignor Stanislaw Dziwisz, 55, also of Cracow. (The other secretary is not Italian, as one might expect, but ( Vietnamese, Monsignor Vincent Tran Ngoc...