Word: communalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House life: If variable meal plans encourage students to eat fewer meals in the houses, this may be detrimental to the communal spirit now found in the houses system. In addition, the increased security measures may affect the quality of the dining experience...
...impromptu theater-jugglers, bands, ventriloquists, and an iguana man who lets children pet the iguanas he walks on a leash. As the sun disappears below the horizon, the crowd applauds. Tourists now outnumber the youths and leftover hippies who founded sunset watching on the dock as a communal mystical experience a decade ago. The easy movers are now more likely to spend the twilight hours at Captain Tony's bar, where Tony Tarracino holds court for his hirsute flock. The more elite swig Key lime daiquiris on the deck of the Beach Club bar at the nearby Pier House...
Anne B. Spence, associate dean for housing, said yesterday the decision to distribute toilet paper only to Quad residents and freshmen "evolved historically" and is related to the location of communal bathrooms...
From microphones in communal canteens...
...Great Leap Forward (1958-60), with its preposterous backyard pig-iron furnaces and bureaucratic romance of communal farms, left the country in depression and famine. Less than a decade later came the Cultural Revolution, a three-year Maoist spasm of revolutionary zeal against the onset of complacency and bureaucracy. The Cultural Revolution dislocated nearly every institution of Chinese life, many of which still have not recovered. A case can be made that Mao lived too long. The Great Revolutionary died at 82, an enfeebled puppet. His legacy, after the Cultural Revolution, was a ramshackle economy, a badly equipped military...