Word: feudality
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...political life of the small villages, like the living conditions, is almost feudal. Most of the communities live under the rule of a political warlord who demands that they pay tribute by giving him votes and taxes. The guerrillas often come from the same towns. Some 200 teachers, frequent objects of suspicion because of their close contact with the peasantry, have been assassinated from these and other seemingly placid villages...
...tung's new Communist regime tried to expunge the last vestiges of feudal marriage by enacting China's first marriage-and-divorce law. The law banned compulsory arranged marriages, concubinage, child betrothal and interference in the remarriage of widows. It reluctantly permitted divorce, but only when "mediation and counseling" had failed and the marriage clearly could not go on. China needed stability and unity, it was reasoned, so couples were called upon to "put politics in command of everything" and stay together. In practice, divorce was usually denied when only one party, wife or husband, wanted...
...escort, Dayton Macatee, 23, are dancing up a storm. That Mimi and Dayton get along so well is no surprise; they're both well-bred, well-off young Texans. Keep in mind, though, that Mimi had nothing to do with the selection of Dayton as her escort. In feudal fashion, Idlewild made the match, based on criteria known only to the club. All the other couples were paired by Ann Draper, a professional social secretary. This matchmaking ritual began as a convenience decades ago and still seems to bring shining results. Says Kyle England: "I haven...
...CAMERAS pan over post-revolution Managua, a folk singer laments the old days when, roughly translated, his country was "a feudal estate encumbered by the owners with a mortgage." Teaching people three, four and five times his age to write and read, an 11-year-old boy--one of 120,000 brigadistas in the nation's literacy campaign--recites to his pupils lessons like: "The Sandinista Front guards against Yankee imperialism." Along the highways, there are those insipid billboards--the smiling workers with strong shoulders and full faces, who sell only happiness and, by inference, obedience. The crudity...
What the play owes to its two leading actors is incalculable. Rogers' Sir is a white-maned lion who roars formidably against his self-sought fate. He is a ham to his hocks, but he serves Shakespeare with feudal valor ("We've done it, Will, we've done it"). As for Courtenay's Norman, as his voice echoes sepulchers and his hands etch the air with images of touching vulnerability, he opens the book of acting to a previously uncut page. -By T.E. Kalem