Word: communale
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...true vivacity, however, and these moments usually come--not surprisingly--when the cast is acting as a collective entity. When they sing "Que linda es Cuba" or chant "El pueblo--unido--jamas sera vencido" with what looks like genuine revolutionary fervor, they manage to capture some of the warm communal feeling that you might experience at a revolutionary summer camp, or, more likely, at a demonstration. But as this production of Tania proves, demonstrations are more fun to participate in than they are to watch...
...Chicago, met Dolph and Teddy. The three hit it off, and the group, including Micah, agreed to live together as a free-style "family," sharing everything, including sex, in Jo's Washington Square Village apartment. Some shared more than others: Jo paid most of the family's communal expenses out of her $60,000 yearly income from stock dividends and a trust fund set up by her father, who owned a sausage-casing company. "We had somewhat of an open family," says the burly, bearded Dolph, interviewed in jail. "We were trying to live as truthfully and honestly...
...land and his sense of independence. In the beginning, the government advocated the establishment of ujamaa (cooperative) villages on a more or less voluntary basis. But last year no fewer than 3 million people were moved-some willingly, some by coercion-from their own admittedly inefficient individual plots to communal villages. The result is that farm production has fallen at a time when Tanzania desperately needs increased agricultural output...
NEWS SEEMS to be our only communal event these days. But if you are looking for a chance to reminisce over the big news events of the past years, this is not the place. Rather, Assignment America is a loose concatenation of over sixty off-the-beaten-track, Charles-Kuralt-in-Middle-America genre stories culled from the last five years of The New York Times...
...already demonstrated his expertise in the well-known 1963 study called Amish Society. His new book draws an impressive picture of a people who share the general Anabaptist rejection of worldly frills and pleasures, but who have a special distinction of their own-a strict devotion to communal living that has endured with little change for more than four centuries. The Hutterites now number 22,000 and live in agricultural colonies mainly in the Northwestern and North Central U.S. and on the prairies of Canada. They are growing. When last measured in the 1950s, the Hutterites' median family size...