Word: serfdom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...company mimic the balletic prancing of Thoroughbreds. The equine hero is Strider (Gerald Hiken), whose bloodlines must somewhere have tangled with those of Harpo Marx. Strider is a piebald gelding and, because of that, very infra dig. Metaphorically, he is a Russian serf in a land where serfdom, at all unhappy times, seems endemic. Yet all men are serfs of some sort, as Tolstoy points out. And every serf, like every dog, does have his glorious days. For Strider, the first is a fling at love with a filly fatale (Pamela Burrell), an adventure for which he is gelded...
...such pretty nuances were nearly overwhelmed this spring by a tide of events that is sweeping through big-time professional sport. A mood of emancipation has changed the basic player-owner relationship. Pro football, basketball and hockey-under legal pressure-are all in various stages of changing the traditional serfdom in which owners have held players...
Ring in Friedman, ring in Hayek-- It's your road to serfdom, you should like...
...Russia remained absolute. Pipes thinks the peasants had the potential strength to succeed where the others had failed but that they lost the chance because they were politically unaware. Pipes is angry with the "stupid" peasant because he was too lazy to organize as a class to challenge the serfdom that was oppressing him. For this reason, the peasant was "ill-suited for any political system except an authoritarian or anarchistic one," and he let the opportunities of the intelligentsiarun revolution pass...
...economists to foresee the 1929 crash, he was cited by the academy for his work on the relative efficiency of different types of economic systems. The system that he has criticized most is the one advocated by Myrdal. In his 1944 international bestseller, The Road to Serfdom, Von Hayek warned that centralized planning, however idealistic, inexorably leads to the loss of freedom...