Word: communale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year ago, they were making only $30 a night from occasional club dates in the Bay Area. These days they get as much as $30,000 a night; all of it goes into a communal kitty. Now and then one of them buys a color TV set, but mostly they are socking away their new wealth and trying not to think too much about it lest it give them high-flown ideas. "I see things through lower-class eyes," says John. "If you sit around and think about all that money, you can never write a song about where...
...Calcutta! not only offers the most nudity but the handsomest nudes on the New York stage, trim-muscled men and lovely girls. Why does it fail to stimulate eroticism? The answer is that no member of a theater audience is unaware of the rest of the audience, and this communal group consciousness inhibits erotic response. If it gets a minus on eroticism, Oh! Calcutta! gets two plusses for the laughter it evokes and its rousing celebration of the body beautiful...
...often been instructed not to use the word "campus" in connection with Harvard, for Harvard was not supposed to have a campus. But here it was being used as freely as if the story were about Berkeley or Columbia. And University Hall all of a sudden seemed large and communal...
...traditions of this country, we avow Israel as a sovereign power in the family of nations, which sovereignty therefore must safeguard its own national interest on behalf of its citizens. America, similarly as a sovereign power, must also freely do likewise, unfettered in its foreign policy by pressures from communal minorities of Arab or Israeli ethnic sympathies, or motivated by empathy with their respective coreligionists...
...each and every Harvard department serves a corrupt establishment, from Fine Arts (". . . the art historian at Harvard for the most part is working for and with the ruling class--for those that have time to acquire their particular 'culture.'") to Literature ("Little attention is ever paid to the communal or 'folk' aspects of literature, or a 'pre-capitalist' literature which expresses the myths and values of a group."). Now, a great deal of this writing is remarkably puerile, but it has the great virtue of holding together. It is all here, the pieces fit, it works. This is the general...