Word: feudality
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...Spanish Civil War of 1936-39 was not a dress rehearsal for World War II. The war was the result of the unresolved social problems that have plagued Spain for many centuries. The pueblo of Spain was trying to break with the parasitic and feudal control exercized by the church, the military caudillos and the landowning bourgeoisie. Since the Republic represented a threat to their existence, the plot for the destruction of Spanish democracy was hatched in April of 1931. Franco had joined the right-wing monarchist plot against the Republic as far back as the summer...
...country was coming apart, Lebanon's political leaders seemed utterly incapable of finding a solution. In fact they were part of the problem. Many are zu'ama who solemnly discuss cease-fires even as their troops are shooting away. President Suleiman Franjieh, whose base is a virtually feudal Christian hill village outside Tripoli, so thoroughly detests Premier Rashid Karami, a Sunni Moslem, that they can barely work together. Though Karami began seeking a solution in Parliament last week, so many of its 99 deputies refused to venture out in the line of fire that a 50-member quorum...
...been arrested for not wearing tops. Sleepy fishing hamlets on Spain's southern coast were suddenly flanked by burgeoning glassy skylines of luxury apartments, and there was standing room only on once desolate beaches. The result for Spain was its own economic miracle-a swift switch from decaying feudal empire to industrial state. The gross national product rose from $29.3 billion in 1963 to an estimated $65 billion in 1974, and there was a corresponding increase in per capita income, from $934 in 1963 to $2,100 today...
...itsu. These artists represent the poles of style and temperament in Edo period painting: Hōitsu with his feathery, elusive washes of ink painted wet into wet; Jakachu with his steely drawing and complicated patterns. Hōitsu was nobly born, the younger brother of a feudal lord. However, he wanted to paint, and, being a most elegant dilettante, educated to the fingertips, he ran through a succession of styles before fixing the manner of an earlier master, Ogata Kōrin, who had been dead for almost a century. But his own paintings were much less formalized than...
...Dean Rosovsky, tenure is not very feudal. An economist, Rosovsky said the process was much more like a trust, with each professor a shareholder. The responsibility of each member is to find "the best possible person in the world in any field...