Word: communing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sensual "revelation." At home, Rimbaud set out to shock the respectable citizens. He would stroll, dressed like a tramp, down the main street during the sacred apéritif hour, smoking a short pipe and, "what was considered most outrageous of all," smoking it bowl downwards. During the Paris Commune, Rimbaud picketed his native shops, shouting: "Beware! Your hour is at hand! Order is vanquished!" When Poet Verlaine, who admired Rimbaud's verse without having seen Rimbaud, sent him a ticket to Paris, nobody was sorry...
Aground, while the pilots work to repair the ship, this ill-assorted group finds itself living out an experiment in communism, taking orders from the chief pilot (Chester Morris), lessons in exemplary citizenship from the anarchist (Joseph Calleia). Surrounding this jungle commune is a tribe of headhunters, who pick off two of the passengers, the mobster and the jailer, and beat war drums for the rest. When the patched-up plane is finally ready for a takeoff, only enough gas is left to carry four, and the boy. The anarchist pulls a gun, takes the law into his own hands...
...search of some common bond in an era when compulsory courses had already disappeared that President Lowell projected the House system in order that men of diverse interests might meet across the dinner table and commune. And it was in search of what he called "the principle that is needed to unify our liberal arts tradition" that President Conant three years ago wistfully suggested that "it would be desirable for every college graduate to have a knowledge of the cultural history of the United States in the broadest sense of the term...
Today is a nice but cloudy day-nice to go to a county fair and sleep on a surrey seat. Tomorrow it will likely rain-a good day to stay home and commune with Mr. Liddy's invention...
...mayor of Crosnes, a village near Paris, France, issued a decree forbidding the dogs of his commune to bark from...