Word: communalism
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...grown up as an American, learned my country's history. But birth and knowledge alone do not a citizen make. It often takes some great communal happening to make one feel truly connected to one's heritage and place. Every now and then an event marks the time for us with striking clarity. No matter how much sorrow lingers for the nation and the world after Sept. 11, no matter what fears we will have to accept, no matter how much anger we harbor, we're all in this together now. Isn't that what makes a nation? CHRISTOPHER KERNS...
...places, his church. Most conspicuous is the World War II mania, from Saving Private Ryan and Tom Brokaw's encomium The Greatest Generation right up to this fall's HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, which has rolled boomer reconnection with parents, guilt over easy prosperity and a longing for communal purpose (be careful what you wish for) all into one trendlet...
This past Sunday was the annual New York City Marathon. As helicopters flew overhead and police barricaded street corners, painful reminders of a city under siege, runners clad in starred and striped shorts and T-shirts turned 26 miles of raw endurance into a communal exercise of grief. Firefighters ran for lost brothers, husbands for lost wives, friends for lost friends. The marathon’s motto, “United We Run,” captured the spirit of the event. Never, perhaps, has the image of 30,000—Canadians, Ethiopians, and New Yorkers among them?...
...pushed toward our fall 1986 deadline. The Afro-American studies offices became frenetic as the pamphlet grew into a paperback. From the students who made an index by using three-by-five cards to the faculty members who contributed essays, the book inspired the most wonderful sort of communal effort. Professor Caldwell Titcomb ’47, the musicologist and theater critic, soon joined us as a co-editor. Next, we sought the expert guidance of the late DuBois Professor of History and of Afro-American Studies Nathan I. Huggins, who, with Ewart G. Guinier...
...occupied hotel rooms to protest the Vietnam War, attracted media attention solely through Lennon’s participation, Ono’s most innovative and enduring work largely precedes their collaboration. Moreover, the spirit of that work, positive and life-affirming in its emphasis on the power of our communal imagination, is so different from the pernicious Asian dragon caricatured by disappointed fans...