Word: communalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...founder of Israel's first kibbutz, or communal settlement, Shmuel Dayan* was often in an exultant mood. His enthusiasm reflected the spirit of other Utopian experiments-virtually all of which failed. Now, in Israel's 25th year, the conditions that sustained the kibbutz in its early days have changed, and some Israelis are questioning whether their experiment can last...
...motivation when the State of Israel was founded in 1948; they had long regarded their settlements and way of life as essential to the establishment of the new nation. Ever since that goal was reached, the kibbutzim have had trouble recruiting members willing to make the sacrifice that communal living demands...
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...