But during the past two months, Ms. Nimbley's anguish has been eased by an outpouring of generosity that has transformed this collection of single-family homes and harried self-absorption into a Normal Rockwell model of communal care-taking.
Education implied the formation of the whole personality: the inculcation of ideas, beliefs, and attitudes through control of the entire environment of youth, in accordance with the model of communal education among the ancients.
MR. WEHRLI, A LANKY FORMER JUGGLER who spent five months in prison when he was 22 rather than participate in his country's compulsory military service, lives with his son and his partner of 16 years, Brigitta Schrepfer, 46, in a cooperative apartment complex in an old industrial area that is something of a model for communal living and collaborative consumption.
Ms. Brock's vision of spiritual therapy takes its inspiration from models as varied as early Christian rites of communal penitence after wartime and the Navajo ritual of purification in a sweat lodge.
The urge to reinforce gender differences and to regress to docile, domestic models of womanhood, I realized, has often reappeared after times of communal crisis.
The rush to build factories, communes and communal dining halls into models of miraculous Communist plenty began to falter as waste, inefficiency and misplaced fervor dragged down production.
In this respect, the model presented by Vogan and Higgs does not address the problem of "communal" gene sets because all non-redundant gene combinations are equivalent, and no genes are ever detrimental.
The dominance of communal politics can be understood in Stephan and Stephan's (2000) model of integrated threat theory.
However, a "cooperation-first" model faces an equal difficulty in that most evolutionary studies of human cooperation assume the existence of communal norms and the punishment of infractors [ 7- 9].
Is any kind of communal wisdom glimpsed?
