Word: communale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Henry V is not so much a play about individuals, to be watched by an audience, as it is a kind of communal experience of revelry, hoopla, and even mystical ecstasy. A production almost becomes a corporate singing of a national poem instead of the national anthem--through which act the characters and the audience all brainwash each other. Three cheers for Harry the All-Britannican...
...paid back in ten years. The deficit created by a minority of defaulters and former students who fail to reach the pay-back income level would be met by assessing prospering graduates above the $5,500 income level a slight additional percentage that would be siphoned into the communal kitty...
...moral status of the prostitute is a natural issue for modern questioning of traditional ethics. Christianity has taken a dramatic position on this issue, giving no quarter to sins brought on by the harlot, yet offering her soul communal redemption. But in by-passing the powerful intellectual and emotional conflicts posed by the Church's stand, Cole and Perera give Saint Pelagia its sorry artistic impotence...
...could even make a certain amount of small talk. Son of a World War I Italian general, he had studied at the University of Rome and Pisa's Institute of Physics, where he specialized in cosmic ray research. Later, he was hired by Euratom, Europe's communal atoms-for-peace agency, and went off to Brussels, leaving his wife Maria and their two children behind in Pisa...
...each of the skeins of medieval life into a vivid tapestry that shows the loutishness and insensitivity of the baronial landholders, the obtuseness of the peasantry, the twisted fervor of churchmen who found virtue in the wholesale slaughter of heretics, and the disturbing contrast between the warmth of Jewish communal life and the demeaning nature of usury...