Word: landlordism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cambridge landlord occupies an enviable position. Because apartments convenient to the University are at a premium, he is in a position to name his price, and to pick and choose tenants from a swarm of applicants. Last year, for example, the Harvard Housing Trust received 2944 inquiries, whereas 874 apartments were offered...
...role as heir apparent to "Great Uncle" Ho Chi Minh. Back in 1951 Truong Chinh was named secretary-general of the Lao Dong (Communist) Party, and launched a ferocious campaign of land reform. His slogan: "Better kill ten innocent people than let one enemy escape." Son of a landlord mandarin himself, Truong let his own parents die at the hands of his land reformers, declaring coldly: "The people's court was right...
...Landlord Mentality." The prestige of each Communist cadre was made dependent on the number of landlords sent to the gallows. But in the overpopulated delta, the richest landowners had no more than two or three acres and a couple of water buffaloes. Even one-acre landlords became hard to find, and the cadres coined a new phrase-"landlord mentality." A peasant married to a girl whose ancestors had owned a dozen cows had landlord mentality. In a final purge last fall, even this stratagem was exhausted, and old cadres resorted to accusing new cadres of "landlordism." Jails became filled with...
...Swiggett sees it, seems to lie in thinking that a few miles of Long Island Railroad track can separate the company's time from his own. While Steve never becomes as abject as Pavlov's dogs, the company rules him by conditioned reflex. It is the absentee landlord of his home, the unseen host at his dinner parties, the spectral judge of his every decision...
Older residents were more sorrowful than resentful. One woman reminisced about her 44 years as the University's tenant, and stated that Harvard was an "ideal" landlord. Her boarding house used to house students until complaints about the DeWolfe St. "rathouses" caused the transfer to the dormitories. Now, students will live on DeWolfe again, and she thinks this will force her to leave Cambridge...