Word: feudally
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...Peeved. Their complaint was only partly economic. Many officers were sons or grandsons of Japan's feudal soldiery who, with the nobility, had once been the Empire's aristocracy. They were irked by the decline of military power and prestige...
...achievements be equalled, Vag reflected with mixed pleasure and regret, no one but the taskmaster-emeritus of History 1 could inspire, and graciously accept, the gift of a highly-polished apple which one ardent admirer had brought up to the rostrum at the climax of a lecture on the feudal system...
Descendant of a samurai (feudal military gentry) family, darling of the Army extremists, the old Baron was one of the first Japanese of high position to be labeled "Fascist." But during the last several years his views mellowed to the archconservatism of an elder statesman. He believes in friendship with the U.S. and Britain, favors a quick settlement of the four-year-old Sino-Japanese War, opposes a single totalitarian party, has balked against Axis alliances. So considerable is his influence on Prince Konoye that he has become known as the "Strong Man of the Cabinet...
...poor country" unable to break through the manners and social limitations of the "oldest totalitarian system on earth." His legendary imitative talents extend only to the materialistic trappings of other cultures (his "Westernization . . . has reached its climax already"). The "die-easy" liberals within Japan's congenitally feudal society have lost faith and hope-seeking to fuse two irreconcilable attitudes toward life, they "forgot to give liberalism to the people." Though Japan may never return to a point where, as in the last century, the mere intention to travel abroad was punishable by death, Hauser implies that East is still...
...could conceive him [Winston Churchill] in a great upheaval, he would be seen emerging in the role of what Bagehot calls 'a Benthamite despot,' dismissing all feudal ideas and legitimist pretensions, sweeping aside all aristocracies, proclaiming the democratic doctrine of the 'greatest happiness of the greatest number' and seating himself astride the storm as the people's Caesar-at once dictator and democrat...