Word: communalized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Brecht's theme was the revolutionary farmers' takeover of what was best in the past, its songs and the belief in personal and communal dignity that lay behind them. So he showed the roots of the farmers' anti-fascist slogans and collective ambitions in simple, legendary stories, and the way the values of the stories made the anti-fascist slogans make sense, like Azdak's Solomon-like decision that Grusha keeps the governor's child because she won't try to pull him from a circle in a tug-of-war with the governor's ambitious widow. As a result...
Heimert said the program is intended to give people an opportunity to participate in a "relaxed, communal setting. I see it as an analogue to intramural athletics...
Despite church disapproval, some Catholics have chosen to think of the new penitential prayers in the Mass as their "confession." Others, particularly on college campuses and in progressive parishes, have been taking part in unauthorized communal rites of penance, acknowledging their sins inwardly while a priest gives "general absolution"-a sort of blanket forgiveness-for the entire group. A variation sanctioned by the church-a combination of a communal celebration of the sacrament with brief individual confessions and absolution -has won wide acceptance in many U.S. parishes. As for more leisurely individual confessions that require some counseling, many penitents have...
...document approves warmly of communal rites, which the Vatican seems to want to establish as the basic, most common form of the sacrament. But those congregational celebrations, the rules insist, must incorporate individual confession and individual absolution for each penitent-a somewhat cumbersome procedure. General absolution is in most cases forbidden. To the disappointment of liberals, it will be largely confined to mission areas, where a single priest may have to deal with large crowds of penitents in limited time...
...meeting room upstairs at the Ollerton colliery welfare building in the Nottingham-Midlands coal field looked like a converted high school gymnasium. After an hour and a half downstairs of lager and bitter at a small communal bar, the miners filed into the room, noisy and nervous. Pea green was the color in vogue and woolen socks topped off waterlogged boots. A few sport jackets, an occasional tie, and two or three old brown frayed Stetsons dotted the crowd...