Word: feudality
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...most influential member and biggest producer. The Saudis' avid antiCommunism, their support of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat against more radical Arab leaders and their relatively moderate position on oil pricing make them particularly acceptable to American policymakers. Despite its vast wealth, Saudi Arabia is still essentially a feudal state badly in need of both industrial and agricultural development. In the past year or so, the U.S. has signed agreements to provide the Saudis with military and technical assistance, including electrification projects and agricultural development programs. Says Saudi Information Minister Muhammed Abdo Yamani: "We see signs that make us optimistic...
...them several times more. An explanation might lie in the apolitical, reality-free spell her books cast. By the time you have turned the first few pages of a typical Heyer, you are barely sensible of the existence of the lower classes, except in terms of the hero's feudal obligations to his old retainers. Even the most determined revolutionary has to abandon class analysis or feminist wrath in this world of the peerage, where such things are patently absurd. All you can do is give in to gooey-eyed sentimentality, and wonder with, say Judith Taverner...
Duelling is the central event of Barry Lyndon, but is a central metaphor without meaning. It doesn't suggest that life is a contest of individuals, it doesn't suggest that duelling is a ridiculous feudal survival, and it doesn't say anything about Barry's place as a gentleman or what a gentleman is, to name just three possibilities. Any of these could have given flesh to the film's skeletal frame. Does Barry's adherence to rules of duelling make him a gentleman, or does he take advantage of the rules? After his card-sharping experiences...
...athletes, their demise has not come a moment too soon. In all three sports, the structure of labor-management relations is almost feudal. Under baseball's reserve system, players are theoretically bound in perpetuity to the team that signs them. Even if they complete their contractual obligations to a franchise, they are not free to sell their skills elsewhere. In the N.F.L. and the N.B.A., they can bargain with other teams-but there is a catch. If a man jumps to a new team in football, the new owners must compensate the old with a player or draft choice...
...republic is Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the Prime Minister and widow of S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, who held this post from 1956 until he was assassinated by a Buddhist monk in 1959. Since Mrs. Bandaranaike was last elected in 1970, an imposing number of her relatives-both from her own family, the feudal Ratwatte clan, and her in-laws, the equally aristocratic Bandaranaikes-have assumed high office...