Word: communalization
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...which all of us are responsible for cooking, cleaning and performing all other duties necessary for a well-functioning household. It strikes me as an excellent model for what theater artists are always seeking: collaboration—making the active choice to commit time, thought and energy to a communal project built on a common purpose...
...John Kerry, meanwhile, exhibits a different kind of tactic. Calling for greater candor by those who exercise the job of high command, and stressing the importance of seeking communal harmony among members of our international household, the Massachusetts Senator promises a leadership style that more resembles a kind of new-millennium Ward Cleaver: never abdicating his role as parent, yet ever careful to solicit input from his charges - in this case, the American people. (And, for better or worse, John Kerry is even as corny as the Beaver...
...College don’t trust students to drink responsibly, they should at least take steps to ban the most dangerous types of alcohol. The College should also help HoCos and other organizations (from Harvard and Yale) obtain the requisite licenses, in order to promote a vibrant, communal tailgate environment in which students will self-regulate their own drinking. If students eschew boring and keg-less tailgates in favor of pre-gaming—drinking massive quantities of alcohol to achieve a 4-quarter-long buzz—University Health Services will have a banner day. The College must take...
Harvard students aren’t the most communal animals to begin with, so it’s scary to ponder how isolated we might become if the lure of cable television sat in our bedrooms next to Instant Messenger and Snood. Cable television need not be an isolating force; instead, the presence of cable televisions in house common spaces and living rooms brings otherwise isolated students out of their rooms and into contact with each other. And this is no small accomplishment, considering that there are only a few things that routinely pull students from their bedrooms, namely, food...
...trembles in the wind. On the other side, the ground is nearly bare, chewed down in places to the rocky topsoil. In between are splintered fence poles and scattered strands of electric wire that, until last month, closed off a 20,000-hectare central Kenyan commercial ranch from the communal grazing lands of Masai herdsmen. To the Masai, most of whom make their living raising cows, sheep and goats, the landscape's stark divide is testimony to their need for grazing lands. With a population of about half a million, the Masai are one of the smallest tribes in this...