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Word: communalism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...went out to Porter Square and bought this six-foot inflatable kiddy swimming pool," recounts Heller with enthusiasm. They took apart the communal Canaday shower and ran a hose to their common room. while their proctor ordered them to dismantle it, Heller has since filled up the pool at least once every year since...

Author: By Lori E. Smith, | Title: A Future Rabbi A voids Solemnity | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

...much hate accumulate in so small a country? Historians could point to Rwanda as a case study in what happens to a former colony when suppressed tribal rivalries are released into a power vacuum. It is a familiar lesson: an estimated 1 million Hindus and Muslims died in communal fighting after the British pulled out of India; the departure of the Belgians from the Congo set off savage ethnic-regional warfare; the collapse of the Soviet Union ignited a murderous rivalry between Abkhazians and Georgians for control of Georgia. Rwanda's preindependence history held special ironies: while colonial rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why? the Killing Fields of Rwanda | 5/16/1994 | See Source »

...surfaced as a popular phenomenon last year in Spain, where a two-disc version of Chant sold 325,000 copies in four months. The Benedictines' run-down 8th century abbey in northern Spain became a Mecca for music lovers, who came in throngs to hear the monks chant their communal prayers seven times a day. All this attention has flummoxed the abbey's 36 residents. "You have to understand," said one, "we are not rock stars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CLASSICAL MUSIC: Salve Festa Dies, Baby | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

...astonished me with their altruism. For anyone who is confronted by a slick marketing type condescendingly writing our generation off with that "X," I offer the following few vignettes. Each one is an anecdote about people who are idealists, and who are willing to give of themselves to a communal cause. I give them to fellow members of my generation to defend ourselves against the prevailing stereotype...

Author: By Martin Lebwohl, | Title: Rallying to Action | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

...hope this campus' efforts to send relief to the people of Bosnia continue. I also hope that we look at this effort as a paradigm of communal activism and the sounding out of our community's moral voice...

Author: By Martin Lebwohl, | Title: Rallying to Action | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

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