Word: communally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Critical communal awareness" explained why mywork in Boston's Chinatown had been so fulfilling.The concept of having something to give to acommunity which I could call my own, even though Igrew up three thousands miles away and outside ofChinatown, became a thrill. I now regret nothaving had time to recruit minority students forCrimson comps. I learned to smile and respond inan informative manner when complimented on myEnglish by the native public during my work at theMuseum of Science. "Well, even though I'm ofChinese heritage, I was born in America. In fact,my Chinese probably isn't too much better...
...gifts and profound flaws who reminded him of his own imperfections while providing a model of how to live with them. More's famous work Utopia describes an island where both religion and reason work to support ethical norms and the aim of society is to provide in a communal way for all citizens...
...purchase materials and to build a shanty in order to bring members of my dormitory into the divestment movement. Permission was granted and I was welcomed into the shantytown with a list of principles the Open University agreed to abide by. The "Principles of Community" enumerated the personal and communal rights and ethics of the Open University members. It is these principles which have created a blatant hypocrisy and disparity with reality...
Another hypocritical principle states that "Personal possessions shall be treated with respect unless clearly designated communal items." Truly a noble principle, it has not been enforced. I have been rudely evicted from my shanty and I have "lost" several possessions to the community--blankets, sheets, tools, and the like...
Female emancipation may be the one great achievement of the Baby Boomers. All sorts of kooky notions on the protest generation's agenda, from communal living to extolling "mind-expanding" drug use, have mercifully become memories. But women's liberation, minus its early stridency, has become the status quo. "We were the pioneers," says Reich, "to take seriously the notion that women are equal. That's the social change that's lasted." In TIME's poll of 30- to 40-year-olds, the legacy of the late '60s and '70s that earns the highest approval rating (82%) is simply "changes...