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...sunlight, filed into the camp. There they were issued mattresses, bedclothes and kits containing toilet articles, sandals and one candy bar each. Inside the tents and Quonset huts hastily erected for the emergency, the refugees finally gave way to emotions stored up over weeks of anxiety. In their first communal act in America, they embraced and wept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Agony of Arrival | 5/12/1975 | See Source »

...desirability of leaving such matters to individual judgment, are more liberal and would lead to a vastly different official policy. They also, undoubtedly, would require changed physical arrangements and a different social structure in the houses. I understand that some such changes--involving, for example, student-managed communal living--were discussed before Mather and Currier were built. If those proposals were again to come under consideration. I would be among those arguing strongly for them. I think students, to say nothing of tutors, should be much freer to run their own lives and establishments than they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON COHABITATION | 5/1/1975 | See Source »

...liberal community was characterized by more than just qualities of academic freedom. Handlin said. In addition, "there was a communal organization that allowed a lot of people to do their own thing," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Handlin Lecture Discusses Fate of the Liberal University | 3/28/1975 | See Source »

...main characters] Burris and Frazier. Now, of course, I'm a convinced Frazerian... Some of it was written with great emotion. The scene in Frazier's room, in which Frazier defends Walden Two while admitting that he himself is not a likeable person or fit for communal life.... I typed out in white heat...

Author: By Joy Horowitz, | Title: Under Skinner's Skin | 3/24/1975 | See Source »

...psychiatrist from the University Health Services said last night at a student forum in the University Lutheran Church that depression and suicide at Harvard are often caused by a "distorted sense of importance and lack of communal experience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UHS Psychiatrist Says High Goals Trigger Suicides | 3/17/1975 | See Source »

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