Word: commune
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...navy, and most famously in public office. Admiral William F. Halsey and Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., belong to the same alumni association which nominally includes Pee and one Nathaniel R. Clanton of Augusta, Ga., black sheep of his class, who was killed on the barri cades of the Paris Commune...
When the annual Esplanade Concerts opened Tuesday evening, 25,000 heat-weary Bostonians turned out to stretch on the cool grass, commune with the innumerable pretty girls, as well as to hear the pleasant, undemanding music played by Arthur Fielder and his Boston Symphony group. Just as the concert began, a full moon rose from behind Boston's buildings, and from the Charles came a light breeze to mitigate the day's blistering heat. As the sky grew darker, and the trees lining the river became black silhouettes, any regular concert-goers present probably were irritated by the rise...
House syncopation--addicts can commune with their radio sets tonight and tomorrow as WHON gives out with 29 hours of continuous jazz starting at 7:30 o'clock. The Network's jazz orgy, given every term during reading period, will feature both Modern and Dixieland recordings...
...peaceful text-book tactics which have brought frustration, or by the more expedient terrorist activities tainted with the unsavory odor of gangsterism? It takes Joseph two years to decide upon the second course. Through Joseph's eyes, Koestler gives the reader a vivid impression of a typical Marxist agricultural commune, and the immense difficulties involved in buying desert and turning it into a self-sustaining home are presented in detail. Joseph contrasts the high-strung, intellectual European Jew with the ". . . blond, freckled, broad-featured, heavy-boned farmers' sons, peasant lads . . . and slightly dull,"--the new Jewish strain developing in Palestine...
...time chosen by Koestler is 1937-39, a tense period when many Jews turned from the conference table to armed terrorism. Koestler tells the story of a typical Jewish commune and the 25 pioneers from Europe who settled it. Starting from scratch on a barren, rock-strewn hilltop, they wind up, two years later, with a self-sufficient agricultural community supporting 300. Another novelist might have made this the whole show (having fitted in the appropriate love affairs and local Arab color), but for Koestler it is only a beginning. By the time he is through...