Word: communalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Confidence operators and petty thieves traditionally prey on dormitory dwellers. The fall's bumper-crop of returning students is a god-send to rip-off artists. The situation is most dangerous in freshman dorms, where residents are apt to leave their doors open as they journey to communal bathrooms...
...neither really spells out just where he believes the movement is heading. It is enough for both that these "alternatives" exist and flourish, after a fashion and for a while. Perhaps it is just as well that the authors have chosen not to brood on the history of communal societies in the U.S. Few have lasted long; those that endured often lost much of the founding spirit, and came to bear an uncomfortable resemblance to the society they had abandoned...
Christian coffeehouses have opened in many cities, signaling their faith even in their names: The Way Word in Greenwich Village, the Catacombs in Seattle, I Am in Spokane. A strip joint has been converted to a "Christian nightclub'' in San Antonio. Communal "Christian houses" are multiplying like loaves and fishes for youngsters hungry for homes, many reaching out to the troubled with round-the-clock telephone hot lines. Bibles abound: whether the cherished, fur-covered King James Version or scruffy, back-pocket paperbacks, they are invariably well-thumbed and often memorized. "It's like a glacier," says "Jesus-Rock" Singer...
...Novato, Calif., the new Solid Rock house is perhaps typical of the communal Christian houses. Though none is quite the same as another, they all insist that premarital sex and drugs are out, and many have quite strict rules: up early, to bed by ten or eleven, assigned chores, a certain number of mandatory Bible readings or prayer gatherings. Yet they generally are happy places. "It is a gentle place, this Solid Rock," reports TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager. "The voices are quiet, the words that recur are 'love' and 'blessing' and 'the Lord' and 'sharing' and 'peace' and 'brothers...
...casually ecumenical. Its speaking in tongues ?glossolalia, a form of prayer that is usually a babbling non-language?is done quietly, but it is done. The Pentecostals have the unhappy faculty of offending both liberals and conservatives in Catholicism: liberals resent their insistent orthodox theology, conservatives their communal lifestyle...