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...device of the people's commune-a system of forced collectivization of human beings which the Russians abandoned as impractical in 1933. Rural people's communes, the first of which appeared in Honan province last April, sometimes have as many as 300,000 members, in most cases absorb the whole population of a county-peasants, traders, students, officials and professional men. Upon "volunteering" to join a commune, members turn over to it virtually all their private property, including homes, garden plots and heavy tools. Once in the commune, members cease to have a regular trade, become all-purpose...
...cooperation with the city. It was a compound tragedy of Boston that it was saddled with Curleyism in the period of its most severe economic pinch, as capital of the region that saw its major industries, textiles and shoes, sliding away. Newer cities still expanding every decade could absorb the graft and woeful inefficiency of city machine patronage in their burgeoning growth. But Boston was drained...
...deconversion, privacy, or fringe benefits can convert to the enjoyment of House life. It seems silly to keep these damned souls within the walls when they--and those who have to live with them--would be happier apart. Quincy House, despite Master Bullitt's wishes, will no doubt absorb part of the discontented and adventurous few, but the others will remain a burden to their respective Houses...
...unimaginative new sets from the hands of Scene Designer Rolf Gerard, hired a top Broadway director, Jose (Long Day's Journey into Night) Quintero. Although he had never done an opera before, and had seen only half a dozen in his life, Director Quintero somehow managed to absorb most of the stagy, stiff-kneed mannerisms of traditional opera productions. Nevertheless, particularly in Pagliacci, he added some truly exciting touches: Nedda, starting her first-act aria reclining voluptuously on the steps leading to the open-air stage; Canio, ripping off his white clown's coat at the opera...
EARLY descriptions of radioactive fallout's effect on future generations were subject to exaggeration. Now, an M.I.T. study shows that the human capacity to absorb radium may exceed the previous medical estimates by as much as 25 times. For the sobering story, see MEDICINE, Radium Hangovers...