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Land´lord`ism
landlordism the actions and characteristics of a landlord. — landlordly, adj. See also: Behavior |
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Attention then moves in the next chapter to the influence of Henry George in England in the early 1880s and the appeal of his arguments for land reform to those who had long objected to the land monopoly; support for George's ideas is linked to the wider radical tradition of attacks on the abuses of landlordism. To increase home ownership and decrease absentee landlordism, the university paid mortgage incentives of $15,000 to university employees who bought a house in the neighborhood, and $7,500 to homeowners who improved their existing property. In a framed letter to Antoinette following a botched rendezvous, Smith rants about love and treachery, exposing the viewer to the sometimes paranoid extremes of a relationship which today would be called dysfunctional but which at the time was how people got along when they were busy collaborating in the epic construction of queer, volcano-powered, lobster-colored dream weapons against landlordism of all kinds. |
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