Word: serfdom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...become Ruanda and Urundi, their great size (average height: 6 ft. 6 in.) froze the hearts of the tribes already living there. The pygmy Mutwas (average height: 4 ft. 6 in.) quickly became their slaves, and the industrious Muhutus (average height: average) gradually settled down into a kind of serfdom. Though only some 550,000 strong, the tall Watutsis dominated a land of 4,600,000. They dressed themselves in fine togas and rich skins, performed war dances and dedicated themselves to the accumulation of lyre-horned cattle...
...special form of wages, a survival of serfdom days when the lord, pleased with his servant, gave him a reward of money.-The Soviet Encyclopedia...
...human life now to be surrendered to blind chance and accident, habit, stupidity, and chaos?--or worse still, allowed to lapse into the control of elites with stunted souls who can count on the despairing resignation of everyone else to manipulate or intimidate the species into a cheerful, comfortable serfdom? The only trouble with most atheists and agnostics is that, deep down, in their bones, they still feel the future of the world couldn't possibly be ghastly, that Jesus loves them, and that they're never actually going to die; in short, they still believe...
...ASSOCIATED PRESS PICTURE CAPTION ON A MOSCOW CROWD SCENE ["The Road to Serfdom"-July 7] ERRONEOUSLY DESCRIBED THE PEOPLE AS PARTICIPANTS IN JUNE 23 DEMONSTRATIONS AT THE WEST GERMAN EMBASSY. THE PICTURE SHOWED A LONG LINE OF PEOPLE WALKING ACROSS RED SQUARE. INQUIRY HAS DEVELOPED THAT THE MOSCOW GROUP THUS PICTURED HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE DEMONSTRATIONS...
GOGOL, by David Magarshack. A sound, readable biography of the little 19th century Russian neurotic who became one of his country's great novelists. Incredibly, he exposed corrupt Russian bureaucracy and the horrors of serfdom in books of genius while obsessed with the notion that he was really helping to preserve the Russia he loved...