Word: communale
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Berners sees the communal effort he leads, the hunting of children by parents, the attempts at understanding, as a "process," not a "circumstance" as the others do. What Calisher does not seem to realize is that she is guilty of the same thing. She creates a nicely literary shallow set of circumstances out of what should be a fully human process. She plays word games and symbol strategies with her middle-aged prilgrims, but forgets their supposedly real children entirely; they are but mythical objects of a quest...
Spassky's defeat was no national disaster for Russia; after all, chess is a game, not warfare. Still, it is fascinating to speculate about the geopolitical implications. If pure hearts no longer prevail, what then is the future of the Soviet communal ideal? Perhaps the senses should now be allowed to soar in Russia, personal competitiveness be exalted, and the model of the disciplined intellect be scrapped in favor of the search for self-comfort in cars, cuisine and water beds. And if a brainy kid from Brooklyn becomes the all-American hero, should not the U.S. close...
...COMMUNAL CENTERS. The converted Southern mansion near downtown Atlanta looks like a good boardinghouse, but the 61 residents are all convicts involved in the most controversial of the proposed alternatives to prison. On the theory that the isolation of prisons is one of their biggest weaknesses, many critics have proposed putting groups of convicts into relatively small quarters in ordinary residential areas. Florida now has 28 such community corrections centers-and has had a predictable difficulty in adding others. "Everybody likes the program," says Community Services Administrator Don Hassfurder. "They think there should be community corrections centers-some place else...
...students might be lucky enough to find space in an old-style Russian communal apartment, where tenants have their own tiny bedrooms but share bathroom and kitchen facilities. But apartment-mates usually balk at the introduction of an additional, unofficial resident...
...alarming number of such unsatisfactory marriages is not fully reflected by the divorce rate. Many unhappy couples retain legal bonds to avoid jeopardizing career possibilities--especially if they hold good positions in the local communist party branch--or to avoid losing their room in a communal apartment...