Word: communality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are 105 Men's Social Service Centers in the U.S., where the army starts its salvageable wrecks on the road back. Manhattan's center is a seven-story warehouse building near the Hudson River. In a kind of communal living arrangement, the men eat together, sleep in dormitories, earn $1 pocket money after the first week, $2 after the second, and eventually up to $15. There is an Alcoholics Anonymous group at the center, so that the men can fight together against the temptations of rum. There is a recreation room on the second floor with...
...fundamental features of those "Utopias," according to Skinner, is communal property, separation of children from parents for educational purposes, and the absence of money. "Sooner or later we must apply this scientific approach to human affairs and now is the time," he said...
After aid to refugee students comes relief for non-chartered universities. Many student clinics were damaged during communal rioting; WSSF is attempting to rebuild and restock them through funds raised in such drives as the present Council campaign...
...hard work with rah-rah is its distinctive feature. Often students do both at once. Since the days of a famous grind named Poler, Princetonians have spontaneously celebrated "Poler's Recess" at 11 p.m. every night during exam-period grinding: ten minutes of fireworks, blasting radios, and communal noisemaking in the best tradition of the frustration-aggression theory...
...Nehru and his Congress comrades once languished. On the far right loom the Hindu chauvinists, the Hindu Mahasabha. Beside them, noisier, more militant and dangerous, are the R.S.S. (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-literally, Organization for Service of the Nation). They spawned Gandhi's assassin; they could still undo the communal peace so painfully...