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...Pratt family is a close-knit unit. On a 1,000-acre tract in lush Glen Cove, L. I. are seven Pratt houses-four occupied by Brothers Herbert, Charles, Harold and Frederic, another by the widow of Brother John, onetime Congresswoman Ruth Baker Pratt. In the centre of their communal estate are their stables and dairy barns, an institutional layout manned by numberless grooms and milkmen. As many as 100 big & little Pratts and their in-laws assemble for annual Christmas family reunions...
...Victorian home. We shall never experience the dubious joy of accumulating useless and ornamental junk. In fact, Miss Catherine Bauer, whose article deals with houses and cities, has no doubts about the passing of the self-contained, isolated home, man's castle, and she is all for communal housing. To the romantic the apartment house is of course far from desirable; he likes to know his neighbors because they live next door or a few rods down the street, and is grieved not to know them because they live--twenty suites of them--under his same roof. Housing...
...dire prophecies and belief that the earth is soup-plate shaped. But it could not dispute the grim, lap-jowled prophet's absolute mastery of his own tight sectarian world of Zion City, Ill., on the lake shore 40 mi. north of Chicago. Owner of its communal industries and General Overseer of its Christian Catholic Church, Prophet Voliva banned tobacco, liquor, cinemas, profanity, immodest dress and chewing gum from his realm and ruled its 6,000 inhabitants body & soul...
...achieve his end President Lowell laid well-marked paths through the maze of Harvard's free elective system. He introduced tutors and comprehensive examinations. He drew freshmen from their scattered lodgings into the communal life of Georgian dormitories near the Charles River. Finally in 1928 a gift of $13,000,000 from Edward Stephen Harkness allowed him to fulfill a longtime dream. By splitting his unwieldy body of upperclassmen into seven residential Houses he hoped to restore the fellowship of student and student, student and teacher, which small, oldtime Harvard had possessed...
...give a stirrup-cup to the political theory of the Nationalist order of things. The happy result of this emphasis on things theoretical is that the Fascist reader can contentedly describe the volume as bunk, the internationally minded Socialist can contentedly read about the development of a world "communal organization", and the old school liberal can contentedly pore over an internationalism based on natural law and democracy. Even the critic can contentedly point to inconsistencies like the building up of an analogy between the individual citizen under municipal law and the individual state under international law, which is explained away...