Word: communal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perera says he is comfortable with the pressure. "We have 40 people on staff jumping up and down about the show," he said. "It is a real communal atmosphere...
...first step is to answer another question. Why do we need public displays of religion at all? Is it a pressing need to ooze piety in public? Why don't private celebrations suffice? It strikes me that the only compelling reason has to do with communal celebration and education. Someone is inspired by the beauty and depth of his tradition and wants to share it with his peers. In fact, that sentiment is perfectly in line with what Harvard is always encouraging us to do. Bring your diverse backgrounds, knowledge and experience to this campus, we are told...
This movement should not just be happening because Harvard administrators are usurping the power held successfully by students in the past, but because finally, students have come together with a communal idea in mind. It is an idea which has nothing to do with themselves, their academics, their ability to have alcohol in their rooms for a party, but with a community which is so concentrated in Cambridge and in the United States. Students have begun to ask questions, the first step to finding answers to problems at large...
...most part, the conversation, or "dialogue" as we now call such things, dealt with serious issues such as communal history, the perception of ethics and the conscience itself. The participants earnestly tried to pin down the nature and origins of guilt in their religions through soul-searching and cerebration. Unfortunately, they failed...
Nevertheless, we should learn a little something from our Ivy League rival and look towards a convergence of the two species, by combining Eli's greater social proclivity with our far greater academic intensity, and their more brightened communal awareness with our overdeveloped sense of independence. Perhaps then we would have a species that will be fit not only for survival, but for the emotional rewards we tend to do without...