Word: communalization
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...House’s conveniently located communal recycling bins—one in each corner of the courtyard—might also have given Kirkland an advantage over the more sprawling Houses, Hoelting said...
...seasoned underdog, Saban grew up so poor that his family shared a communal bathroom with streetwalkers in a Tel Aviv apartment building. After stints playing bass in a rock band and promoting concerts, he moved to Paris in 1975. One day he was watching an English-language TV show and realized the theme music might be popular on French radio. He could buy the foreign rights to such tunes for a pittance, he discovered, and by the early '80s, he was licensing entire shows, mostly for kids...
Perhaps a better lesson to impart to bright-eyed first years is the value of self-reliance within rather than apart from a communal life. In this way, our best selves are found not in solitude (as the Transcendentalists would have it) but in the richness of the present, in the company of friends...
...they are often greeted with a friendly “Take a seat wherever you can find it.” The statement is not to be taken lightly. The myriad couches and rugs lining the restaurant’s perimeter are filled with hungry customers who huddle around communal silver platters. There is no “waiting room”—instead, people waiting for a vacant spot mingle, drink and chat in the central pathway to the pulsing, flowing rhythms that fill the room...
...understanding we have with the community depends on the fact that we do not seek to pressure society on matters of communal importance,” he said...