Word: communalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the fact that current first-years were still in high School when the pats made their brief comeback last year students dining at the Union yesterday blasted butter bowls, citing speculation about the health risks of communal condiments as the reason for their preference of pats...
...same seeing [alternative movies] at home," said Mike V. Dain, who lives in Boston and frequents the Brattle a couple of times a month. "It's a communal experience. The people who come here are devoted fans...
Indeed, we have hosted Yasser Arafat in our communal "house," and, knowledgeable as we were of his bestial history, we should never have afforded him the distinction of a "welcome guest." When all is said and done, on Tuesday, October 24, Harvard "wined and dined" a murderer...
...shocking conditions in nursing homes circa 1970. Woefully undertrained workers strapped patients to hard-backed chairs, fed them cheap diets and kept them in a whimpering state of sedation. There were tales of urine-soaked hospital gowns and of false teeth collected at night and thrown into a communal vessel that patients had to fish through in the morning. All this and more was documented by the National Academy of Sciences in 1986. The next year Congress passed legislation to address decades of abuse of the elderly by profiteering nursing-home operators...
...standing before each one for minutes at a time, as if to swallow it whole and take it with them to ward off their fears of being alone. For, strangely, in his bleakrless came a certain comfort; seeing those 59 pictures together with hundreds of people made his solitude communal. And knowing that we were not as lonely as those in his pictures also gave a certain comfort...