Word: feudality
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...Edith's protégé-like the young Dylan Thomas or the expatriate Russian painter Pavel Tchelitchew, whom she loved for 30 years with all her virgin heart -was to become the object of an awesome and sometimes smothering loyalty, feudal in its fierceness...
...answer may lie in the fact that during centuries of oppression-foreign and home-grown-secret societies were a means of popular resistance to authority. The Mafia, for instance, came into being under feudal rule in Sicily. In the 19th century an underground society called the Carboneria fought to get rid of Austrian rule. Similarly today, in an Italy that has been threatened by Communism, neo-Fascism and terrorism, many an idealistic Italian has been tempted to join a secret group with the avowed aim of improving society. The apparent aberration of P2 aside, there are believed to be about...
...want to live in freedom from the anguish of unemployment!" he challenged, addressing Giscard. Preying on the President's upper-class background and aristocratic style, Mitterrand went on: "I remind Monsieur Giscard d'Estaing that the people conquered freedom almost two centuries ago against the old feudal or der, and against the feudalism of money, and that the people are fighting for free dom today against the narrow, selfish caste personified by Giscard...
...Christine Papin killed their employer, Mme. Lancelin, and her daughter. Kesselman has retained the names of the sisters, but otherwise the play is very much her own. The playwright focuses on mother-daughter relationships, intimate sisterly affection and a rigid class structure that borders on the feudal droit du seigneur...
...price of land reform in blood and repression has been cruelly high. Some expropriated landowners are believed to be supporting the right-wing death squads, whose killing and brutality are intended to bring back the old feudal days. The leftist guerrillas have also resorted to violence, since successful land reform deprives them of a major popular grievance...