Word: communalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four parties which comprise the Janata differ in ideology and background. The Jan Sangh, which is the largest group, was a rightwing, communal Hindu party, a less vehement descendant of the militant RSS that allegedly murdered Mahatma Gandhi. The BLD was largely made up of small-time landowners from northern India. The Old Congress was the conservative wing of the Congress Party which split away in 1969. Finally, there are the Socialists led by trade union leader George Fernandes, a group rather mild as far as Socialists go, but the only leftist element in this coalition...
...your whole attitude toward Judaism: confronting it and taking it seriously," insists Co-Author Michael Strassfeld, 26, son of a Boston Conservative rabbi. Reviving Faith. The Catalog is in fact an expression of a reviving faith among Jewish young people, many of whom are gathering together in new communal groups they call havurot, from the Hebrew word for fellowship. Each such group-there are now hundreds all over the U.S.-is a close-knit community that meets for prayer sessions, meals, classes and discussions on Judaism. While havurah members do not necessarily live together or pool their finances, they share...
...Mathilde announces she is pregnant. Laughing, teasing each other about their eccentricities, they sing together of the future, when the 20th century will disgorge the unborn Jonah into a future remodelled for his benefit. Here on the farm they have found a retreat from the capitalist world in the communal spirit that has given them hope again...
Every "ticket to a dream" is bought by people unaware that they are paying an unduly heavy price and an unfairly large share of communal needs...
...despite massive expenditures on social welfare programs, street crime--primarily an inner city problem--has flourished. Wilson concludes that eliminating social injustice will not eliminate crime. He attributes rising crime rates to "the lack of community"--broken families, a lack of accepted values and behavior and other traditional communal ties. He believes there is a lapse of a generation or two between increased affluence and the rise of community and suggests that trying to cure crime through social programs ignores the need for immediate relief...