Word: feudally
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...ideologies. But there is no anomaly, any more than it was anomalous that Russia, also on the periphery of modern Europe, should have been the theater of Marxist revolution. Neither state-of dukes and campesinos, or grand dukes and muzhiks -had made any real step toward the compromise between feudal past and industrial present that other European nations had made in the centuries since the Renaissance. Spain, like Russia, was ungovernable. At the onset of Franco's revolt against the Republican government, there were more than a million anarchists in Spain. In theory, anarchism is arguable, but in practice...
With his great bull whip, so goes the legend, Columbia Pictures' late President Harry ("The White Fang") Cohn liked to snap out the lenses of his flunkies' sunglasses. That sort of management more or less characterized the feudal days when the major studio bosses-Goldwyn, Mayer, the Warners, Cohn-were almost as well known as their stars. Now that Hollywood is often duller than its pictures, the mighty name symbolizing the new Age of the Independent Producer is roughly as well known as the incumbent ruler of Bhutan...
...pictures with soap on the mirror over the bar, and the boy would copy them in secret. Hardly noticed by them, he closely observed his mother's arrogant, stiff-backed, high-collared customers, whom he delighted in imitating all the rest of his life. "It was an absolutely feudal club," he recalled later, and he hated everything about...
...coffee plantation in the Ngong hill country of Kenya, an Africa now dead beyond recall and yet startlingly alive in these recollections. Characteristically, her theme -the relation of master and servant-would embarrass many contemporary writers to the roots of their social consciousness, but from her it evokes feudal harmonies rooted in a blood consciousness as profound as the roles of father and son, husband and wife. Her mood-dry, elegiac, wounded yet unbleeding-strongly echoes that of the aristocratic author of the brilliant 19th century Sicilian chronicle and recent bestseller, The Leopard; this somehow befits a woman whose African...
What sundered the feudal serenity of the black-white relationship in Africa? Not an upper white caste, insists the baroness, but a lower white class: "We should have looked at the quality of those who settled in Africa rather than get as many whites settled as possible. We should have had an elite which could have educated the black lower class...