Word: communalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what I want is for police departments to honestly appraise their use of force, apprise communities and neighborhoods of how it is used, formulate its future use in consultation with neighborhoods and communities and do this within the context of constitutional safeguards protecting personal liberty and with concern for communal peace and security...
...months the Punjab's communal hatred had been boiling up into slaughter. A climax came last spring when hundreds were killed in riots. In August the partition of the Punjab between India and Pakistan left 1.6 million of the 3.8 million Sikhs in the province under Moslem rule; at least twice as many Moslems remained on the Indian side of the border in a new East Punjab state...
...three siblings slept on dirt floors. Woken each morning before sunrise, they were shepherded to distant work fields, just to keep them tired. Independent canting was punishable by death; laborers were fed communal "meals"--always boiled water with a countable number of rice grains. Lien and her brothers quickly adapted to their new lifestyles because they were too delirious to do otherwise. Weak from overwork and malnutrition, they could only focus their attention on food and day-by-day survival. Together they conjured up imaginary servings, as if the words alone could nourish them. While a nearby campfire...
...modern creation that for all its universality manages in every age to take on a decidedly middle-class look. For the mirror-image fantasy derives above all from the coziness of middle-class life. The more settled and ordered one's life-and in particular one's communal life-the easier it becomes for one's imagination to fail. In Scarsdale, destitution and desperation, cruelty and zeal are the stuff of headlines, not life. Thus a single murder can create a sensation; in Beirut it is a statistic. When the comfortable encounter the unimaginable, the result...
...spacious and sunny room in Waggener Hall, Galinsky last week joined his class of teachers, who clustered informally around a conference table. There was a communal feeling in the group during the friendly discussion. Galinsky wondered if his class saw any change from Homer to Vergil in the ancient poets' view of man in society. Said Barbara Kane, a classical studies teacher from Spring Lake, N.J.: "In the Aeneid, there's a definite movement away from the focus on the individual per se-you have a national responsibility to the group." Said Tom Ahern, who teaches Latin...