Word: communale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this limited cooperation may emerge what Tillich called "communal eros"-the love of men for other nations. But, he said, "there is no hope for a final stage of history in which peace and justice rule. History is not fulfilled at its empirical end; but history is fulfilled in the great moment in which something new is created, in which the Kingdom of God breaks into history conquering destructive structures of existence. This means that we cannot hope for a final stage of justice and peace within history; but we can hope for partial victories over the forces of evil...
...that way-but often the roof covers only a single room. More than three-fourths of Tokyo's private rental units are one-room warrens, and both the financial and the human costs are fearful. Almost once a week a Tokyo infant smothers to death in an overcrowded communal bed. A taxi driver recently nabbed by police for making love to his wife in the public plaza of the Imperial Palace was given a sympathetic release when he pleaded that he simply could not perform his husbandly duties at home-home being a 9-ft. by 9-ft. room...
...wracked Sportpalast last week, paying $100,000 for the privilege of watching a handful of men in silk spin madly around a banked oval track, for prizes ranging from a few bottles of wine to a brand-new DKW sedan. To beleaguered Berliners, the Six Days serves as carnival, communal songfest and emotional blowout. Only a fraction of the crowd is made up of racing fans, and as one old man said of the event, "It would be great if it weren't for those cyclists...
...loss of local ties should not be viewed as a loss of intellectual vitality but rather as a change which has many gains as well as losses. It means that faculty members are relatively free from institutional and communal pressures. When the President of Brandeis several years ago found himself in a tangle with two members of his Anthropology Department, one of whom had made what parents and prospective donors regarded as intemperate statements about the Cuban missile crisis, he felt justified in criticizing her because of the pressures he was subject to from parental and financial support...
...immigrant from Europe, said Handlin, wanted a Church with the social and communal peculiarities of his homeland and looked on the parish church as a part of his cultural community...