Word: commonality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comparatively small group, which frequently utilized its position for selfish ends. Even before the war the opposition to the regime had found strong expression in the socialist movement and in the revival of a nationalist movement which aimed at the consolidation of the national powers for the common good. The trials of war led to a complete debacle of the liberal system and gave rise to the Fascist movement, which, in its essence is a revolt against liberalism. Mussolini, as dictator, is the new state, and his chief aim is the galvanization of the nation's effort for the good...
According to the urbane Spectator, famed 100-year-old English weekly review, it is "a common saying and the usual remark" in England to observe...
...more important question of what intellectual end such a melting pot will serve still remains to be answered. It will patently no more foster an atmosphere of common intellectual effort than the present system, since the intent is to prevent any large concentration of men working on the same subjects. We must then assume that diversity of intellectual appreciation, like breadth of social experience, is the object of the House plan. In other words it is expected that an art student, a mathematician, a football player, and a CRIMSON editor will gather informally in the new Houses and each impart...
...given distinctive characters which would attract to them students inclined toward their specialties. All the men who were working in the same field would have a chance to be in frequent communication with each other, an intellectual atmosphere and intellectual discussions would, thus provided with a basis of common interest and knowledge, tend to develop. Some even of the professedly non-students might be drawn into the vortex by mere proximity...
Henry Ford in his new book, My Philosophy of Industry, writes: "In common decency the liquor generation should be allowed to die in silence. Its agonies should not be the constant topic of Ameri can journals...