The phrase "a common civic" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to refer to a shared civic duty or responsibility, but as it stands, it lacks clarity and context.
Example: "Participating in community service is a common civic responsibility that we all share."
Alternatives: "shared civic duty" or "public civic obligation".
If Winston Churchill's maxim about architecture — we shape our buildings, and thereafter our buildings shape us — is true, the great span and the forever futuristic-looking needle gave each of these young West Coast cities a common civic narrative.
This "something in American space" is held together by a common civic spirit that often feels temporary, negotiated and limited, but is nevertheless ceaselessly humming against all the individualistic noise.
Aleksei Gorin traces how the idea of building a common civic legal space was constructed in Russia's public, professional (legal), political, and administrative discourses of the second part of the nineteenth-early twentieth centuries.
If it graduates students who see themselves as experts outside a common civic life who fix people and provide solutions, higher education erodes free spaces.
Understanding the force employed by professionals, whatever their good intentions, who are trained as objective experts outside a common civic life, in turn makes the pattern and its mechanisms (including the credentialing and socializing institutions of higher education) subject to democratizing change.
We have made it to old age, and if AARP can bring about a sober dialogue between the young and us about how best to allocate resources fairly while saving Medicare, that would not be a roar, but common civic sense.
That may be useful when you are trying to bring together a crowd to topple a tyrant, but, as Mr. Krastev explained, it makes constructing the common civic space upon which a functioning democracy depends much harder.
Cuomo the god, brooding upon campaign tactics, making small gestures here and there, has not permitted Cuomo the mortal to rise above the tumult and speak at length about the reckless threats to the common civic culture in a season of anomie.
The idea of moderate nation-building points to an open multi-culturalism, in which every group receives its share of remedial rights but, instead of walling itself off from others, participates in a common, overlapping civic culture and in open communication with other sub-communities.
Let's use it, as Mr. Callahan says, for "common civic sense".
21 op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that Over the past 50 years, that common civic culture has unraveled.
