Word: communalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crack of noon a communal yell commenced the kaleidoscope start. Bromwich was far enough back in the pack that he didn't reach the starting line until almost 90 seconds into the race. "It was very hot at the start, but I had very few problems and felt good for the first ten miles. And could you believe those women at Wellesley, [approximately the halfway point] they were so enthusiastic, they gave everyone a lift...
...attachment of the Miller-Heimert school to historical fact--as imaged in the writings of Puritan divines--has obliged it to account the Puritan errand at least a partial failure. For these historians, the corruption of the communal vision led inevitably to the separation of individual and communal salvation. Not so for Bercovitch. By shifting his emphasis from historical fact to the language itself, Bercovitch can support the continued coincidence of the two. In The Puritan Origins of the American Self, facts have ceased to matter at all--what counts instead is the distinctive Puritan rhetoric tying the redeemed individual...
...hoodlum, and then to a proper Boston women's college, "alma mater of vast battalions of female overachievers." When her prim devotion to the rationalism of Descartes collapses under the onslaught of Nietzsche, she drops out of school and into a lesbian affair with a leathery radical. A communal farm in Vermont claims Ginny next, and ultimately she sinks into a mindless marriage with the local snowmobile salesman. "The incidents in her life to date," Ginny fatuously decides, "resembled the Stations of the Cross more than anything else. If this was adulthood, the only improvement she could detect...
Cartoon Eccentrics. Novelist Alther, 31, draws this story in broad strokes, and as exuberant caricature Kinflicks is authentically inspired. The chapter on Ginny's communal life at the "Free Farmlet" is a wicked send-up of half-baked ideas and less well-prepared menus: "Dinner was a murky soup, filled with dark sodden clumps that looked like leaves from the bottom of a compost pile and that tasted like decomposing seaweed, and whole grain bread which you needed diamond-tipped teeth to chew." The novel teems with cartoon eccentrics mouthing balloonfuls of in flated nonsense...
...from one end of the building to the other. Russian apartments rarely have rooms this large because the country has a severe shortage of apartment space, and most families in Russia must place their children in generally small living rooms. Sometimes as many as four families will share a communal apartment...