Word: communalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NUTRITION. The Federal Government has earmarked $125 million for nutrition programs for the elderly. These funds enable hundreds of communities to serve the aged one hot meal daily five days a week, mainly at communal eating places, but also at the homes of those unable to get out. Food stamps, worth more than their purchase price, can help stretch tight food budgets. Information on eligibility for the stamps and other nutritional aid is available from local commissions on the elderly and from welfare offices or agricultural extension services...
Lome, Togo--Back of the wide yellow beach and its palm trees that are your first impression, there are the woven-bamboo shacks that surround every city I saw in Africa. The huts are fenced-off into compounds with communal cooking and eating areas...
...sunlight, filed into the camp. There they were issued mattresses, bedclothes and kits containing toilet articles, sandals and one candy bar each. Inside the tents and Quonset huts hastily erected for the emergency, the refugees finally gave way to emotions stored up over weeks of anxiety. In their first communal act in America, they embraced and wept...
...desirability of leaving such matters to individual judgment, are more liberal and would lead to a vastly different official policy. They also, undoubtedly, would require changed physical arrangements and a different social structure in the houses. I understand that some such changes--involving, for example, student-managed communal living--were discussed before Mather and Currier were built. If those proposals were again to come under consideration. I would be among those arguing strongly for them. I think students, to say nothing of tutors, should be much freer to run their own lives and establishments than they...
...liberal community was characterized by more than just qualities of academic freedom. Handlin said. In addition, "there was a communal organization that allowed a lot of people to do their own thing," he said...