Word: feudality
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...Enduring Feudalism. Even without guerrilla warfare in Eritrea, Haile Selassie's ancient empire is haunted by grave troubles. Its 25 million people, a fusion of Semites, Hamites, Nilotics and Bantus, have an average per capita income of $63 per year (one of the lowest in the world). Only 7% can read. Nine out of every ten Ethiopians are subsistence farmers, and 60% of these are tenants on feudal estates. Cities are haunted by bands of beggars and thieves...
Under Frieda's compassionate influence, the home became a haven for Depression drifters down on their luck, but for Tom it was also a feudal castle to be ruled with a shillelagh fist. Philip ascribes his rebelliousness to resentment of his tyrannical father. Daniel traces his to the year when a stingy aunt took over the household while his mother was recovering from tuberculosis. "She actually starved us," he still says in some bewilderment...
...Your cover story [Dec. 21] presented an excellent picture of Camelot in blue and gold, as well as a clear-cut portrait of our reigning King Arthur, the legendary Admiral Zumwalt. The Arthurian analogy is apt because the C.N.O., too, has his foot-dragging barons and feudal lords opposing his every reform. Only now they've taken the guise of middle-level brass who, having attained a predetermined goal, don't wish to make waves...
...threatened by Marxism in Latin America? The feudal landowners? The reactionary church? The rich American corporations? Surely not the great masses of workers and peasants...
...other electronic marvels. Quebec's F.L.Q. dates only from 1962, but French-Canadian nationalism goes back two centuries. Pierre Trudeau himself was close to Quebec radical movements in the 1950s, but he later decided that what separatism really meant was simply a long step back to Quebec's feudal past. In a tough 1964 essay, Trudeau let the Quebec separatists have it. "The truth is," he wrote, "that...