Word: communale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first place, as a French Algerian who inherited a built-in controversy more bitter at his death last year than it was at his birth 48 years ago. His views on the desperate issue are included in this volume, but his plan for a federation of settlements along communal lines seems today as remote from realization as his other proposal -mutual forgiveness between the fratricidal factions...
...what they call the "socialist society's principles of more income for more work." Commune workers would be allowed to raise private pigs and vegetables, were granted a reduced work week and two days off a month, and could go home for lunch instead of eating in the communal hall...
Star of David. The kibbutz is run along strict Israeli lines; members carry no money, present lists of their personal requirements, are assigned to the day's work groups as the need arises. The nine babies live in the communal nursery; parents are allowed to take them home and play with them for an hour each evening and on Sunday afternoons...
...Year for 1960 reflect the wide scientific spectrum, with all its communal interests and all its conflicts. On one side is Harvard's Nobel Prizewinner Robert Woodward, famed for his syntheses of quinine, cholesterol and, in 1960, of chlorophyll. Woodward seeks no practical application for his work, saying: "I'm just fascinated by chemistry. I am in love with it. I don't feel the need for a practical interest to spur me." At an opposite pole is M.I.T.'s Charles Stark Draper, an engineering genius in aeronautics and astronautics who describes himself as nothing more than "a greasy-thumb...
...Army habit, generally held himself coolly aloof from the White House press; Jack Kennedy, whose first job was as a reporter for the old International News Service, is far more accessible to the press, numbers several reporters among his closest personal friends. But White House reporters operate on a communal code, are likely to raise Cain with Salinger when favoritism is shown...