Word: communalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sold the same piece of property to different people-finally erupted into sectarian violence in late 1969. Christian immigrants formed quasi-vigilante groups called Ilagas (rats) to ward off Moslems who were trying to seize land. The Moslems formed terrorist gangs known as Barracudas and Blackshirts. As the communal violence spread, young Moslem intellectuals began to oppose not only the Christian settlers and the government but even their own elderly Moslem leaders, whom they accused of corruption. The young dissidents preached secession...
Some societies, especially the Graduate Schools' organizations, espouse no cause other than entertainment. A few societies are yet another outlet for House Committee members' organizational drives-- "a communal activity" as a Winthrop House member put it. But Martha Miller is skeptical of the notion. "How much House camaraderie is there watching a movie?" she asks...
Reflecting some of the same communal spirit as Pentecostalism is the widespread "small-group movement," which concentrates on Bible and prayer meetings in both Catholic and Protestant homes. These small groups, and other new religious patterns, were discussed at an ecumenical conference on the future of U.S. religion held in Chicago last January. The participants examined 27 "trendsetting" religious communities of a wide variety. They included King's Temple in Seattle (an independent middle-class Pentecostal church), Lighthouse Ranch in California (a prospering Jesus movement commune) and Tail of the Tiger in Barnet, Vt. (a Tibetan Buddhist meditation community...
Gone will be the long rows of narrow beds and communal lavatories. In their place, the modern Army envisions three-story townhouse-style buildings with a campus dormitory atmosphere. Each floor will have a central living room surrounded by four apartments. Set up to accommodate three soldiers, each suite consists of a bedroom, bathroom and lounge area. The carpeted, air-conditioned townhouses, furnished in motel-modern plastic and veneer, will be nestled together with landscaped courtyards and lawns as well as training areas...
Swanson's characterization of "most blacks" as being "socialized in a more communal, and in many ways more humane environment" than competitive whites is romantic nonsense and extraordinarily gratuitous. Whether "most blacks" would consider their environment of socialization "communal" and "humane" is questionable, but it is patently clear that most blacks (65% of them) are reared in either working-poor or outright lower-class households. The vicious privations, material and cultural, of these households cannot be lessened by labels like "communal" and "humane...