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Reflecting some of the same communal spirit as Pentecostalism is the widespread "small-group movement," which concentrates on Bible and prayer meetings in both Catholic and Protestant homes. These small groups, and other new religious patterns, were discussed at an ecumenical conference on the future of U.S. religion held in Chicago last January. The participants examined 27 "trendsetting" religious communities of a wide variety. They included King's Temple in Seattle (an independent middle-class Pentecostal church), Lighthouse Ranch in California (a prospering Jesus movement commune) and Tail of the Tiger in Barnet, Vt. (a Tibetan Buddhist meditation community...
Gone will be the long rows of narrow beds and communal lavatories. In their place, the modern Army envisions three-story townhouse-style buildings with a campus dormitory atmosphere. Each floor will have a central living room surrounded by four apartments. Set up to accommodate three soldiers, each suite consists of a bedroom, bathroom and lounge area. The carpeted, air-conditioned townhouses, furnished in motel-modern plastic and veneer, will be nestled together with landscaped courtyards and lawns as well as training areas...
Swanson's characterization of "most blacks" as being "socialized in a more communal, and in many ways more humane environment" than competitive whites is romantic nonsense and extraordinarily gratuitous. Whether "most blacks" would consider their environment of socialization "communal" and "humane" is questionable, but it is patently clear that most blacks (65% of them) are reared in either working-poor or outright lower-class households. The vicious privations, material and cultural, of these households cannot be lessened by labels like "communal" and "humane...
...many white students must also repel blacks, most of whom have little desire to major in Mongolian or frolic in a club while their central cities crumble. Competitive whites in school for no purpose beyond personal gain must appear bizarre to most blacks, who were socialized in a more communal, and in many ways more humane environment...
Alpert and Leary next appeared in the news in February 1963, when their "communal home" in Newton involved them in zoning litigation. In March, the two psychologists started an extensive recruiting campaign for IFIF. In the literature they mailed to many persons in Cambridge, they said they had separated their researches amicably from the University...