Word: brandes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Whole Earth Catalog, published in 1971, which told the dropout generation where to get the information to do its own thing-cultivate organic food, build geodesic domiciles, grow pot. The volume went through 14 printings, sold 1.2 million copies, won a prestigious National Book Award and turned Publisher Stewart Brand, 35, into an old-fashioned capitalist...
...times change and revolutionaries mellow. So Brand has brought out a new volume titled The Whole Earth Epilog, which subtly reflects the greening of yesterday's rebels. "Five years later," notes Brand, "we find the counterculture is a lot more sophisticated. There are still a lot of our readers who are into communes, but many others are now interested in building communities and running for the town council. So we've got pages and pages on things like sewage...
...recovered so completely that she has taken up teaching ballet again. Last week, at a Manhattan news conference, she demonstrated her renewed ability to perform classical ballet movements. "I feel like a marvelous car," she said. "They have put in a new part, and I am like a brand-new Cadillac or Rolls-Royce...
...leftist party is called PASOK--Panhellenic Socialist Movement. Created by Andreas Papandreou, it promotes a Western brand of socialism and takes a vehemently anti-American, anti-NATO, anti-royalist stance; in effect, it perpetuates the underground resistance organization PAK (Panhellenic Liberation Movement). Andreas--as he is universally known--advocates neutrality, promotes the Third World and comes across aggressively, enthusiastically and eloquently. Many people consider the man a threat to post-junta stability; of all the politicians (besides the Communists, who have little apparent power or desire to exert any radical influenced, have suffered suppression, and are newly haunted...
...apparently planning to forsake the bloody glories of big time college action in order to come and feast his little peepers on the exciting brand of ball being played here in the Ivy League. Certainly this is a sacrifice of great dimensions...