Word: communalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tension inside the bomb shelter seems almost as charged as the rocket fire outside. The volunteers pass around a few communal cigarettes, wishing aloud they were smoking something stronger. I try to count the number of Palestinian rockets that are being fired at us, but after a while I lose track and give...
EVEN WHERE the effort has been substantial, the Sun Day campaign is likely to have minimal appeal. Americans are as unprepared for "communal, free" energy as they were for unwed mothers and organic apples. Talk about "soft" energy alternatives conjures up notions of Carvel or Dentu-creme, neither of which seems the likely source of progress and power in this country. Furthermore, Sun Day sponsors and others defined solar energy so as to include "indirect" solar sources, such as manure and windmills, that do even less to lend credence to the idea of a solar "strong America...
...philosophical ideal involved in all of this, an ideal many of the convention members seem to take seriously. The ideal is a community in which individuals don't isolate themselves from others and refuse to accept imperfect goings-on around them. Only by working closely with others on a communal level to solve the little problems can we ever hope one day to be able to solve the more profound problems that we find in our society. Harvard teaches us not to ask questions--don't ask why you can't have hot breakfasts or exams before mid-year vacations...
...Percival's surprise, the volunteers, "who had sat on their asses most of their lives," coped gracefully with primitive life. Building the communal hut took more than two months. Using ancient tools, the group chopped wood for 72 rafters, fashioned a conical thatched roof and sides out of wattle (interwoven hazel branches) and daub (mud and animal hair). Making a loaf of bread the Celtic way took nearly a day. Fashioning clay storage pots took longer, and the early pottery tended to crack over the fire-until the novices got the hang of their craft. Says Helen Elphick...
...year of communal living with scant privacy produced close friendships, a good deal of casual nudity, and a strong taboo against swapping sexual partners. The group talked and moved more slowly and became more superstitious, although members found it hard to sustain an interest in the Celtic religion. "I still can't pray to their gods and goddesses," says John Rockcliff. "It takes more than a year to leave this century...