Word: landlordism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sila Project, was arguing heatedly with Michele Verardi. Tigano had ordered a gang to cut through a garden which Verardi rents from Baron Giulio Berlin-gieri. On the map (and all old inhabitants of Santa Severina confirmed this) a municipal road once ran through the garden. Through the years, Landlord Berlingieri's tenants had advanced little by little onto the road so that it gradually became part of the baronial property...
Finally Verardi blustered: "I'll go up to the village and call down the landlord's agent. You've always bowed your back to him. Do you think you need not bow any more? Fools, you're getting too close to a bear that has always hugged...
...good job of economic reconstruction. Formosa's overall production this year will be up to 75% of what it was in good prewar years. Formosan tenant farmers, who under the Japanese paid as much as 70% of their crops in rent, now pay only 37% to the landlord. Formosans have also been mollified by the improved morale of 500,000 Nationalist troops largely trained by V.M.I.-educated General...
...Barn Burning, a poignant sketch of a boy's anguished love for his arsonist-father; A Rose for Emily, that hair-raising classic of a lady's decline to necrophilia; Wash, a magnificent portrait of a poor white who, after years of loyalty, rebels against his landlord; Dry September, a lynching story to end all lynching stories; A Courtship, a richly comic tall tale about the love rivalry of a white man and an Indian in early igth Century America; and Death Drag, a harrowing story about three hungry, neurotic stunt flyers...
...news brought a comment from another once-great Negro fighter, who had been out of the headlines for a long time. Said Harry Wills, now a Harlem landlord: "Louis is crazy." Harry Wills was thinking of past performances. Five former heavyweight champions* had tried comebacks. All had failed...