Word: feudally
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Soap Lord McElroy, who speaks feudalistically of the "ordinary people . . . who win wars for us," shrugs off a job even the feudal lords did not shirk: they, at least, usually realized that raising artistic standards was not alone "the problem of the schools" but the moral and social responsibility of those whose money supported artistic media...
...American mother had fought and won a hard genealogical battle to establish their right to the 635-year-old family title, Strabolgi seemed to wish they had lost. To the dismay of his fellow peers, he once snorted: "The House of Lords . . . is a picturesque survival of the feudal system . . . out of tune with the modern world . . . Better let it go the way of the divine right of kings...
...tradition dating back to King Henry of Navarre, France's chief of state is ex officio co-ruler of Andorra, a tiny (pop. 5,200) feudal principality of happy, Spanish-speaking shepherds and smugglers nestling amid the peaks of the Pyrenees. This amiable sharing of rulers has not prevented Andorrans from quarreling almost continuously with their big neighbor and protector to the north. Last week they were at it again, and, as both co-Prince of Andorra and President of the Republic of France, blinking, kindhearted Vincent Auriol was in the middle...
During the Dark Ages, Fortuna's temples were looted down to their bones. Even their marble facings were carted away for building material. Gradually the town of Palestrina and the feudal stronghold of the Colonna family spread over the massive remains, effectively hiding them from archeologists. In 1944, Allied bombings peeled away the medieval buildings. When the war ended, Palestrina was a wreck, but the lower parts of Fortuna's temple lay almost undamaged under heaps of rubble...
Hungary was a vestigially feudal country when the Communists took it over in 1944 in their sweep toward Vienna. The conquerors' remedy was the one Lenin had prescribed for Russia: speedy industrialization. With the same ruthless disregard for human life which characterized Stalin's carrying out of the Leninist injunction, they pursued this end: farmlands were collectivized, workers brutally regimented, living standards depressed. Last week, in a swift move that had overtones of the great Moscow turnabout of the '20s, the Hungarian Communists reversed their program...