Word: communal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Half a century ago such acute, social-minded critics as Sidney and Beatrice Webb mistakenly believed that an enlightened British electorate would produce socialism by communal action. Brash young Bernard Shaw, when asked how long it would take to get English socialism into working order, answered airily: "A fortnight would be ample for the purpose...
...multilateral school* of 1980 will have some 3,000 pupils and there will be umpteen sides and umpteen wings in each. Its buildings will dwarf the countryside for miles around. It will have its own aerodrome and pupils will arrive by communal transport planes and even by private 'jeep' planes from all points of the compass...
...direction. But Britons themselves knew that what happened in continental Europe would one day affect Britain. Said the News Chronicle's editor Gerald Barry: This has become the common man's war. Man is trying to find the equation between individual liberty and economic order. Communal control . . . without too great a sacrifice of personal freedom seems to be the common denominator of all resistance movements...
...absence of a Government postwar plan for gypsies, Professor Angold came up with one of his own. Some points: basic three-R education for all gypsies, special open-air gypsy trade schools to teach handicrafts, communal camps for gypsy woodcutters, music classes for orchestras and choirs, the establishment of a gypsy national-theater. Traditional gypsy skills, the Professor urged, should be diverted into workaday jobs...
...Eliel Saarinen, Finnish founder of the Cranbrook (Mich.) Academy of Art. His city planning, said Moses, leads "straight into communal land ownership...