Word: communally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mind the communal bathrooms either because it means that I never have to wait for a shower," Mooney added...
This is a philosophical stipulation that remains true regardless of a people's "shared understandings" of the form of government and notions of individual rights that follow from their community's heritage and traditions. It puts strain on his bolder assertions about communal supremacy in his new book...
...risk with the unknown. They knew that while they would take many memories with them, they were also leaving much behind. Eventually these people would justify their new constitution in the very universal language Walzer now questions. The universalistic claims of our moral heritage are part of our American communal experience--a fact that makes Walzer's critique of them ironic...
...attempt to use the Reagan magic involved a compromising entry into his world of pretense. Aides defended the Reagan fairy tales; editors treated his errors with restraint; the public punished those who were too critical of his whoppers. It was a vast communal exercise in make-believe. There had to be more to Reagan than shallowness and deception, since he was so clearly sincere and his sincerity impressed others so indelibly. He became invulnerable in his personal appeal and winsomeness, and others had to summon up more and more of their own credulity along with expressions of respect. The very...
People here do not see the shacks along the backroads of Mississippi and Louisiana--broken down huts that are homes to rural Blacks. They don't see urban classrooms in which students must leave the communal books before they go home in the afternoons, the classrooms in which 11th graders are taught English as a means of understanding a telephone book or deciphering a movie schedule in a newspaper...