Word: feudally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Republished for the first time in 18 years (in a new translation), A Sports man's Notebook now seems far removed from all such flaming issues, and the brutality of the feudal masters whom Turgenevshyly rebukes can hardly shock a world accustomed to far darker examples of Russian tyranny. Though Turgenev's motive in writing it was to atone for the extreme cruelty with which his mother had treated her serfs, what shines through after all these years is the author's intense love for the Russian land, the Russian tongue and the Russian character...
...Honey Spread. By Eleanor's alliance the Plantagenet adventure was loosed on Europe, France and Britain were pounded into dusty poverty under half a century of campaigns, the feudal system itself was staggered. Yet, also, the sweet Provengal culture was spread like honey over Britain, and three sun-washed, heroic figures rose for a long moment against the Dark Ages. They were the three great Plantagenets: Henry II, Eleanor, and their son Richard the Lion Heart. The greatest of them was Eleanor herself, though centuries passed before the world realized...
...Capetains and Plantagenets were amateur gangsters; they were land-grabbers and money-grubbers, they ignored the sterling principles of the feudal code, and they were usually in trouble with the Church. "I would sell London," said Richard, "if I could find a purchaser." Richard's atrocities get objective reporting, as do the incidents which have become legend, such as the meeting between Richard and Robin Hood...
...item on the menu called Tournedos a, la Metternich.*Nor was this all. Austria's great conservative statesman, "this symbol of European reaction," was joined on the menu by a symbol of British imperialism-Veal Steak a la Nelson^-and one of Hungary's famous feudal families-Beef Steak Esterhdzy.- There were other dishes whose names had no politically dyspeptic connotations, but which were simply obscurantist, e.g., Filet de Fogas Orly,†† Veau a la Bonne Femme...
...Russian Composer Modest Mussorgsky began putting together a notebook entitled "Khovanchina; a People's Musical Drama-Materials." It was the biggest project of his career: a historical opera dealing with the abortive revolt of the feudal Princes Khovansky and their followers (Khovanchina) against the Westernizing influences of Peter the Great's court...