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...ended apartment house honeycombed with private balconies. To service the building, which will rest on 14 V-shaped stilts, Niemeyer has housed the elevator in a separate wedge-shaped structure.* To cut costs, stops will be made only at the top and at the fifth floor (given over to communal TV rooms, library, nursery). This economy measure, Niemeyer confidently predicts, will give apartment dwellers who will have to walk up or down to their front doors the "desirable illusion" of living in a two-story building. ¶ From Berlin's Ludwig Lemmer came the plans for a new Kaiser...
Author Temko captures the sense of communal effort...
...18th century there had emerged in England a demi-reputable tradition of the "dismal trader," although for a long time the undertaker used to inspire communal shudders (in ancient Rome he was barred from politics). Now he had become "a strong, presentable man with a good suit of black clothes of his own"-and the scene was set for The Great American Funeral...
...jungle rise the high Andes -"God Almighty with His back up." On this vast plateau the ancient Incas, seeming to thrive on the cold, thin air, built the roads and stone cities for a creative population. The 5,400,000 numb survivors cling to their ancestral languages and communal farms, to their llamas and alpacas, but they have almost no part in their country's money economy. Only the rare towns and the mines, where U.S.-owned companies dig copper, lead, zinc and silver, are in this century...
...sects, one of the strangest is the orgiastic Shakta. The five elements of Shakta worship are madya (liquor), mamsa (meat), matsya (fish), mudra (grain), and maithuna (sexual intercourse), and it has long been their custom to worship the Hindu goddess Shakti by seeking unity of body and soul in communal sex rites. Such is kanchalia dharam, the ceremony of the blouse...