Felsenstein got his inspiration from reading Ivan Illich's "Tools for Conviviality," which called for devices and machines that would be easy to understand, learn, and repair, thus making experts and institutions unnecessary.
The spit-roasted lamb was divine, but Rhoda Glickman, the wife of Dan Glickman, chief executive of the Motion Picture Association of America, was most impressed by the party's conviviality, which set it apart from the typical buttoned-up Washington affair.
The priest, he says, will conduct fewer services, but he must turn each of them into a moment of "discussion and conviviality," with more religious education and payers.
Maybe Cynthia's presence brought out the garrulous Midwesterner in Tira, or Tira was drunk well, she was—or drunk on the conviviality with a woman.
In 1985, however, a calamity impacted the cartel, the Mexican government's conviviality with it – and US complicity in that relationship.
Flowing stout is the backdrop to the Celtic music and dancing; the famous craic, or conviviality; the pub itself, which stands at the center of town and neighborhood life.
I love not only the fromage on the stage but the capacity of the event to create a campfire around which we can all gather with conviviality and good will.
I can't address all of the issues raised by the commentators, but let me begin by emphasizing that my concern is with social justice, which I take to be a much more ambitious goal than simply hospitality, "conviviality" or "everyday sociability", in Glick Schiller terms.
Both of these scenarios presume that the Sinaloa cartel, the world's biggest and richest criminal syndicate, remains so and enjoys a relationship with the Mexican state – or sufficient elements within it - which involves conviviality at best, complicity at worst.
