Word: communalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Group art, especially the work of primitive societies, assumes the character of communal art, a sharing of human existences. Individual art, like the works of Florence at its haughtiest, can hail the piece of work that is a man or, in less boastful moments can dramatize to beings of a fragmented century the brutal and atavistic parts of our existence, witness "Guernica...
...legal ties, the family "plays a role in educating and nourishing the young; it has been a means, for uncounted millennia, of satisfying the deepest emotional and physical needs of human beings." The judge was impressed by the sincerity of the families' members, but he found that "communal living groups are voluntary, with fluctuating memberships who have no legal obligations of support or cohabitation...
...player is striving for the same things that a square is striving for-security, Utopia, annual income." The latter ranges from $25,000 to $50,000, out of which the pimp pays lawyers and bail bondsmen, buys food, cars, clothes, and sometimes drugs for himself and his stable. A communal apartment, with a pimp and several women living together, is one way of saving money, but Iceberg Slim had only scorn for that arrangement: "That's not an elegant way to pimp...
...view the January Intensive Studies period as a time in which the student contribution to the curriculum is acknowledged and augmented and in which experimentation is the rallying cry. Ideally it would be the fruition of the communal ideals that we have been expounding through New College over the past two years. We see the Intensive Study option primarily as a chance for undergraduates and graduate students to direct their own group efforts in learning and teaching through student-initiated and student-led seminar courses and projects. However, we would heartily encourage Faculty involvement in this program as well...
...Each freshman should be affiliated with one of the residential Houses, with the opportunity to change Houses at the end of freshman year. Eventually, we would like to see the Yard converted to several Houses with communal dining facilities in the Union and Lehman and Robinson Halls.. Informal advice from upper-classmen at the dinner table can serve to complement the assistance offered by official advisors...