Word: communalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Marxism: There are certain principles we have that derive from Marxism. But others derive from our own traditions, communal land ownership, for example. The Marx ists believe in it, but I don't think the Nigerians, who have nationalized their land, are Marxist...
...enough when California courts ordered Novelist Gwen Davis and her publisher, Doubleday, to pay $75,000 last April to Hollywood Psychologist Paul Bindrim. He said he was defamed by Touching, Davis' 1971 novel involving an encounter group whose gig is communal nudity in warm pools. Now Davis, 45, feels doubly wronged: Doubleday has sued her for some $138,000, which includes legal costs, the money Bindrim won and interest. Several authors' groups and a number of writers, among them Irving Wallace, Gore Vidal and Joan Didion, have criticized the publisher for turning on one of its authors...
...ballets that tap the subconscious aspirations and nightmares of their respective ethnic enclaves. In West Side Story's Dance at the Gym and Fiddler's Wedding Dance specific social customs and rituals of courtship and marriage are rethought in balletic terms. With its gingerly folk touches and communal feeling, Robbins' ballet masterpiece Dances at a Gathering carries these Broadway dances to their abstract apotheosis; in part it describes the manners and emotional bonds that unite an imaginary world often young men and women...
...captain this year, Desaulniers has the responsibility of integrating a highly individual game with communal team spirit. And although he took the fall semester off to compete as Canada's top-ranked player in the World Amateur championships in Australia, he has been on campus since the end of November, helping the squad to prepare for Princeton...