Word: commonical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Massachusetts Mobilization to end the war in Vietnam is sponsoring a post-election rally today in Boston. A march will be held from Cambridge Common to Boston Common beginning...
...other countries, heckling is a sometime thing. The French do not even have a word for it. In Japan, speakers were once measured by their ability to stare protesters down, but heckling has become rare since World War II. Heckling is most common in Britain, where it is something of an art, designed to test a speaker's combativeness and quickness of wit. Appropriately, the word comes from the Middle English "hekele," to tease or comb flax, or broadly "to tease with questions...
...Common Cause. Toxoplasmosis is one of the most widespread and least understood diseases. Best estimates are that one person in three has or has had the infection, making a worldwide total of a round billion. The microbe responsible is a minute animal (protozoon) called Toxoplasma gondii. How it gets into the human body is, or was, unclear. Once there, it may cause no significant illness, so that countless people have antibody against Toxoplasma, although they have no recollection of having had a related illness...
Nice and Decent. "The Deadly Theater" is an all too common experience. One has only to sniff the garbage that piles up on Broadway and London's West End every season. But Brook is interested in subtler forms of deadliness, an anemia that saps Shakespeare as well as silly plays. He feels that each drama must be reborn rather than merely remembered and repeated, and that rebirth is fully as difficult as birth. A play dies when too vast a gap develops between it and the life around it. The exquisite mandarinisms of the centuries old Peking Opera...
...eyes of Citroën President Pierre Bercot and Fiat Chairman Giovanni Agnelli, the French government's non was not absolute. They kept right on conferring and finally produced a plan that won De Gaulle's approval. It called for joining the companies in a "common organism" that would command $2.8 billion in annual sales and be managed by Fiat and Citroën on theoretically equal terms...