Word: feudally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...things seemed to be going better in his struggle to save South Viet Nam (pop. 10.5 million), Nationalist Premier Ngo Dinh Diem last week ran into serious trouble. He was caught in an ambush set by the discredited but still powerful rearguards of his country's past-feudal warlords, religious fanatics and big-city hoodlums, with French colonials hovering indistinctly in the background. About 30,000 well-armed troops of the Cao Dai, Hoa Hao and Binh Xuyen sects (long subsidized by the French) were out in coalition against Diem's national government, lobbing mortar shells into peasant...
...Jacques Prevet's script and Marcel carne's direction make Cluny's defection from the diabolic cause later in the Picture seem natural enough-although the viewer may at first be left wondering if this is not just another evil ruse. Satan himself, played by Jules Berry, enters the feudal scene with gusto, elegant clothes, and a most attractive cackle of glee that make his part something out of the ordinary. His expert dematerializations are more to the credit of the cameraman...
...Clyde, Mass, from Denver, he is a likable youngster. But he is quickly made to feel that he and his parents are nomads from the great American desert west of Boston. His father, a brilliant, roving engineer, works at the Harcourt Mill. The Harcourts are a fine old feudal Yankee clan, and they soon inspire young Willis with the desire to be something he is not. He imitates their manners and their games, even buys (secondhand) their kind of clothes. But he can never really relax with them-not even when he takes to the woods with Bess Harcourt...
David C. (for Curtis) Stephenson, 62, onetime Grand Dragon of Indiana's Ku Klux Klan, who used to regard the state as his own feudal barony, won his freedom from the state parole board. He had spent nearly three decades in prison, where he languished amidst delusions of persecution and grandeur, for committing one of the most sensational sadistic murders of the '20s. In 1925, he forced a state government clerk named Madge Oberholtzer to board a train with him and, while his bodyguards stood by, brutally ravished her in a lower berth. After they...
Villagers who might have watched the twentieth century pass by are now eagerly changing their feudal conditions. Farmers learn to plant rice in rows, rather than scatter it with no plan. Some villages begin cooperative stores and libraries...