Word: communalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High up on the fourth floor of Thayer Hall, two adjoining suites of rooms house two freshmen apiece. The suites are identical in very way: both have one bedroom and one living room, both are the same size, both are the same distance from the stairway and from the communal bathroom. Since rooms in the Yard are supposedly priced according to their desirability, one might assume that the rents for these two suites are equal. But the freshmen living in one are paying $185 per term, while the residents of the other pay only...
...small alcove kitchens (at no extra charge) in their suites. Says the manager of the 96-unit Atlanta Terrace Motel, biggest in the state: "People just won't stop if they have to go elsewhere for food." Others give their guests free morning and evening newspapers, plush communal lounges, playgrounds with shuffleboard, badminton, swings and even horseshoe pits...
Human history passed a critical transition when wandering hunters settled down in permanent villages. Archaeologists have reason to believe that this experiment in communal living was made for the first time in Iraq or Iran. Dr. Robert Braidwood of the University of Chicago has reported finding in northern Iraq a village so crude that it seems to be close to the ancient transition point...
...story holds pretty true to Orwell. Manor Farm is run by a drunken brute named Jones. One day the animals, incited by a wise old Middle White boar, revolt and drive Jones out. The pigs, being the most intelligent of the animals, assume the leadership of a communal democracy based on the precept: All Animals Are Equal. The most prominent pigs are Snowball and Napoleon. Napoleon drives Snowball off the farm and seizes absolute power. As time goes by, the pigs get to look more and more like people until at last, as Orwell put it, "it was impossible...
Ferry's plan calls for low-cost rooms and communal bathrooms to be built in the extension. Such an addition would make Winthrop a long, curved building with four wings jutting toward the river...