Word: feudality
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...farm workers take no pleasure in seeing grapes go to waste. But do they give us any choice? Their feudal value system can only be affected by power. Your non-buying power...
...commitment to democracy may be open to question, since he staged his takeover at a time when the King was about to sign a bill permitting formation of political parties. That would have been at least one step forward in Afghanistan's painfully slow transition from a feudal monarchy to a modern state...
Burundi is a land of luxuriant beauty and berserk violence, torn apart by one of those tribal conflicts that are so elusive to an outsider's understanding. Determined to uphold a centuries-old feudal hegemony over 3,000,000 Hutu tribesmen, the well-armed Tutsi overlords, who number no more than 600,000, unleashed a violent pogrom last year. At least 80,000-and perhaps as many as 250,000-Hutus were killed. In May this year the slaughter revived in the southeastern part of the landlocked hill country (area: 10,747 sq. mi., smaller than Belgium). The latest...
...Evelyn Waugh. Please give me a seat.' So they did. I saw the last two acts of Paul Robeson's Othello. Hopeless production but I like his great black booby face." Waugh also noted disapprovingly that Poet Edith Sitwell and her family lived on terms of "feudal familiarity" with their servants. "Come on, one of you's got to go," said the footman, trying to persuade Edith or her reluctant brothers, Osbert and Sacheverell, to go upstairs to visit their mother. After lunching at the Ritz with Noel Coward, Waugh commented: "He has a simple, friendly nature...
Harvard University is a feudal institution that makes the Federal government look like a model of open and straightforward efficiency. Reforms are badly needed. To many, however, the idea of striking against the University is horrifying. The free intercourse in the marketplace of ideas is ruined by a strike. And what happens to academic freedom when students and faculty are prevented by picketers from entering classrooms? The objections...