Word: communal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
FORGET the care of your children, 1 Peking tells Chinese women; there are now communal nurseries. Feel free at last-to dig ditches and build roads -and approach the status of ants. Such is the bleak present and the formidable future promised in Red China's amazing new revolution. See FOREIGN NEWS, The People's Communes...
...joiners" live in large dormitories and are required to take meals at The University Center. Living in the dormitories is not too communal, and the university has broken the dormitories into more intimate entry sub-divisions. To give dormitory groups more character and identity, they might consider a system of small dining rooms, and perhaps a highly modified form of "rushing" to select residents for each group...
...addition to the lowered costs, members of the cooperative feel they have the added advantage of living where "everyone knows everyone." Louis P. Geoffrion '60 commented "the communal atmosphere is terrific...
...Opus Jazz, before brilliant backdrops by Ben Shahn, cool cats off the city streets wander through the compulsive variations of "The Slop," Robbins' reproduction of a minor juvenile mania. Five boys and one girl horse around on a rooftop, spelling out the amoral communal sex of the tenements. A Negro boy and a white girl grope through their loneliness, reaching out with palms that never quite touch. The whole show adds up to the first hit of the fall season. At 39, Dance Master Jerry is still making the guests happy...
...Cutter, bible of the British needle trades. A BBC man in a business suit is a desecration, complained Taylor. "The BBC should continue to set an example by doing the right thing visually." But Announcer Michael Aspel put the matter in a different light. "There used to be a communal dinner jacket which we just passed around," he confided. "And what the public didn't know was that more often than not we just wore it with flannel bags underneath...