Word: communale
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...know why we are so determined," says Kyung-Wha. "But our family dislikes anything in between." The habit of toil was instilled early. At home, the children would gather hi one large room in a communal practice for the contests they were encouraged to enter. Myung-Whun, the next to youngest, played his first concerto at seven with the Seoul Philharmonic. Still, he considers himself a "late starter...
...bureaucratic-technocratic policies made him the chief target of the zealous Red Guard levelers of the Cultural Revolution. Denounced as "a renegade, traitor, scab and agent of imperialism," Liu was stripped of party and governmental posts in 1968 and reportedly spent his last years as a laborer on a communal farm...
With only 97 people on that dusty strip of riverbank out in the middle of nowhere--50 roadless miles from the nearest Indians--a definite tribal cohesion, not traditionally characteristic of the Montagnais tribe, has developed by necessity. The problem of existence is a communal problem dealt with in a communal way. Everyone is expected to contribute in such tasks as chopping wood, carrying water, cleaning the houses, cooking, raising children, keeping warm. To the children, there is very little difference between one house and the next, one parent and the next; not because no one cares but rather because...
Partly because students want to save money, there is a renewed interest in communal living in dormitories as an alternative to more expensive off-campus apartments. Quite a few colleges have abolished most dormitory rules. At Berkeley, says Ben Leifer, 21, a graduate student in public health, "there are virtually no regulations except be discreet, mind your own business and don't bother anyone." Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass., permits students in dormitory suites to choose their own roommates-of whatever...
...desire for communal living, as well as the return to normality, has been chiefly responsible for the resurgence of college fraternities and sororities. At the University of California at Berkeley, which gave birth to the student counterculture with the Free Speech Movement ten years ago, the number of fraternities has risen from 24 in 1971 to 28 now; ten others want to reopen chapters that were closed in the 1960s for lack of members...