Word: communalizing
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Capitalism, the profit system, bothers Mr. Young a good deal. He thinks society should be communal, that work should be held noble and money-getting base. These ideas, and his trial (at which he slept) for sedition with other Masses editors during the War, and his eccentricities, such as lying nakedly asprawl on his hill for sunbaths, make his Connecticut neighbors view "that c'toonist" with some alarm. They are reassured, though somewhat puzzled by his deep vein of quizzical, kindly humor. His life has been most unconventional, they feel, but they know it has been rich and gentle...
Looming over the 9,000-acre campus of Leland Stanford Junior University, on the side of San Juan Hill, is a grey pile of masonry suggestive of an administration building and at the same time, with its terraced roofs for outdoor living, reminiscent of the communal dwellings that the Zuñi Indians used to build. No lawn and scant shrubbery relieve the austere approach. Within, all is spacious and gracious, the solidly furnished home of the family of a man of large affairs. Here lives Nominee Hoover. Hither he was returning last week to await formal notification...
...advent of the dormitory with its communal life has done away with the old Student's Room at the school which used to be the center of activity for the students and of service for the Phillips Brooks House Association. This has resulted in two major groups of students: those who live in the dormitory and those who do not. So far as possible the committee has tried to serve both groups. The temporary lounging room at the school for the students living outside has been provided with magazines so far as possible. At the dormitory, also, the committee...
...earn a slave's adequate "board and keep." Commenting, the British Governor of Sierra Leone, Brig. Gen. Sir Joseph Byrne, said: "Although the freeing of the slaves is a step of great importance, it marks what is only a beginning toward the ultimate ideal of abolition of unpaid communal labor...
...presence of certain illusive and indefinable likenesses between groups of men has been elevated into a faith which demands precedence over all others. Men have believed in oracles, in witchcraft, in "humanity." Now they believe in nationalism. That there should be communal and religious ties and obligations is justiflable and praiseworthy, but that an arbitrary, even absurd notion should be elevated into a fanaticism which may allow certain unscrupulous men to plunge the world into anarchy is tragic...