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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...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Students Want More Course Offerings | 1/12/1979 | See Source »

From microphones in communal canteens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doing Their Own Thing | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: Visionary of a New China | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

Christmas trees in America are public monuments too, symbols of communal celebration. In Bath, Me., the town's tree was placed atop a shipyard's 400-foot crane so it could be seen 30 miles away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grand Tidings of Comfort and Joy | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...This communal commercial approach yields a uniform sound to RSO's product: smooth, sweet and very airy, like a sauna filled with Cool Whip. Coury boasts that he has sold Eric Clapton better than anyone, but Clapton's RSO albums (like the recent Backless) are bleached-out blues for easy listening. Coury's golden ears have helped create a theme song from the new RSO movie Moment by Moment that seems just right for slow dancing in elevators. Consequently, Coury is often on the aesthetic defensive, making heated claims for such slick popsicles as the Bee Gees by stating, "They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Man Who Sells the Sizzle | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

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