Word: communalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Radios are replacing the storytelling dervishes in the coffeehouses of Turkey and Iran, and they are standard equipment in the tea stalls of Pakistan. Thailand's klongs echo to transistor music from peddlers' sampans; a visitor to an Ecuadorian minga, in which the Indians come together for communal road building, calculated that at least one tiny transistor radio was sounding its unavoidable message every 20 yards along the two-mile road. Radio has long been the window on the world for isolated areas, but the cheapness and portability of the transistor set has given the medium...
Distressing as the realization may be, according to the precepts of liberal politics by which we have organized our communal lives for more than two centuries, we are all complicitous unless we actively withdraw our consent from society, or deny ourselves its protections--of which the 2S deferment is the first to come to mind. Regrettably or not, very few of us have done that; this exposes as a gross version of cowardice (and as untoward naivete) our arrogant projection of dissident heroism onto the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Nor are fishing expeditions into University investments or sources...
...worker and peasant are still where they always were: at the bottom. When it comes to the economy, the regime is desperately struggling to free itself from the uncompromising bonds of its own doctrine. In Communist theory, man's ego was to be directed toward communal and other selfless pursuits in the workers' state. But Russia's rulers have found that without incentives people work as little as they can; farmers in their own small garden plots produce more potatoes each year than do all the collective farms together...
...Communal Violation...
...proposed disciplinary action on the other. After all, there was neither physical violence nor property desruction. A man was detained in his room for several hours (where presumably he would have remained for the better part of the day anyway, had he been interviewing job applicants), in conscious, communal violation of University regulations. The demonstration was an act of moral outrage, more or less spontaneous on the part of the majority of participants. When one has wrestled with all of the complex arguments about free speech, individual rights, the difficulty in drawing lines and making general cases, political effectiveness, university...