Word: communal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...death of First Prophet John Alexander Dowie (who stoutly insisted that the devil was a Methodist), Zion City has regained its solvency under rising real estate values and the shrewd rule of Overseer Voliva. Tall, stern-faced, he runs the city of 6,300 on a communal plan, renting the land under 1,100-year leases and controlling the few industries. A feature of his realm is his museum of the pomps and vanities, from wasp-waist corsets to collapsible lipsticks, which he had made his disciples discard. Theatre and cinema houses are banned in Zion. So is tobacco...
...Unsuccessful "noble experiment" of the early 19th century (1841?47); a communal Utopia at West Roxbury, Mass, sponsored by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret ("Priestess of Transcendentalism") Fuller and other advanced thinkers...
...trades in the same community. Thus a producer's cooperative in a given community would include steel men, grain men, textile men; would handle all the production of its district. In the same way, a consumer's cooperative would do all the buying for its locality. This communal trading system obviously lends itself to the growth of legalized monopolies...
...proposes the next step in human progress. Mr. Denison realizes, with the late J. B. Bury, that to understand the causes of civilization and to direct its future development, the laws of its past movement must be ascertained from history with scientific precision. Assuming that civilization always depends on communal effort, the author argues that emotion is the only nexus powerful enough to hold men together. The emotions that have united human societies in the past he analyzes into two categories: patriarchal, which makes for perpendicular ordering of individuals as in the Roman Catholic Church; and fratriarchal, or horizontal relationship...
Tradition, sentiment, the hopes of the founder, all have their weight on the side of an independent and communal Union, and against an all-Freshman or a hybrid Freshman-upperclass-dining-common room scheme. Practicality is of far greater moment, and the need under the House Plan of such a general club as the Union now is, especially during the difficult initiation of the new, is self-evident...