Word: communalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thousands of us went to hear Jesse Jackson speak in the Harvard Yard in early April, and were more affected by his angry, cadent rhythms than by his actual words. "Hooray, hooray," we all shouted, basking in the sunshine and the communal glow of self-congratulation. After the speech a few hundred of us, still in the grip of moral ecstasy, stood before President Bok's office and shouted things. An all-night vigil began. It rained, and began to get cold; a few, huddled under umbrellas, stayed the night and then departed the next day. Almost three weeks later...
Many former Saigonites have been forcibly turned into farmers. In the new economic zone near Ho Chi Minh City, some 1,700 people, mostly urban exiles, have built the Nhi Xuan (Two Springs) communal fruit farm. "They were unruly when they came here," says Farm Official Nguyen Duy Tong. "We educate them. We teach them to realize the tasks they must do. We can do that. It is the character of our society...
...race. Berrigan, a former Josephite priest, was excommunicated after marrying a Sacred Heart nun, Elizabeth McAlister, in 1973; she is serving a three-year prison sentence for vandalizing a B-52 bomber. The couple try to alternate prison terms to care for their three children at Jonah House, a communal residence in Baltimore. Brother Daniel Berrigan, 63, a Jesuit, works with a New York City peace group and counsels AIDS and cancer victims at a Manhattan hospice...
Since UMD plays at the Duluth Arena (it has no rink on campus) and since there is nothing else happening here, no other sports and little appreciable culture, the community finds its communal satisfaction watching the Dogs...
Within the base communities, which average ten to 30 members each, the stress is on shared religious instruction, prayer and communal self-help. Local priests provide guidance to community leaders, but the principal focus of the groups is on relating the lessons of the Bible to the day-to-day activities of their members, be they urban slumdwellers or rural campesinos...