Word: serfdom
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...only industry is peanut farming, Leary is a community of "men who hunt on land that their grandfathers had hunted on--it's kind of Faulknerian." The backwoods town is a "very racist kind of society," where Blacks until 15 years ago "were kept in a kind of serfdom by a family that kind of ruled them...
...proposals have already come under harsh attack. Tony Bonilla, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, has denounced the amnesty plan as "tantamount to establishing serfdom." Some conservative Republicans oppose employer sanctions as yet another form of Government regulation. The Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund says the sanctions will lead to job discrimination against Hispanics. Other critics argue that without a certain method of identifying illegal aliens, sanctions will be impossible to enforce. Nonetheless, there is little support for a national I.D. card. Acknowledges Republican Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming, who supports some kind...
...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...