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...classic encounter. Restless, acquisitive men of iron, canvas and hemp confronted a communal society of bone, skins and thong. The outcome, too, was familiar. Skilled at catching birds in nets, the Inuit themselves were about to be scooped up in the cash nexus. A hitherto unknown clock was imposed on the culture, and its days were numbered...
...Communal use of the phone tends to be less exuberant today. But the switchboard still serves as a referral center and hotline. If a caller wants the town carpenter, Elwood Wing, and Wing is away from home, the chances are fair that an operator will know where. When a fire is reported, operators ring up the members of the volunteer fire department. If a small child comes home from school to an empty house, the switchboard routinely plays babysitter, relaying Mother's messages...
King is not the first to turn his fiction over to the echo chamber of pop culture. Writers as dissimilar as Thomas Pynchon and Donald Barthelme have toyed for years with the mass-produced icons that have invaded the communal memory. But King takes them dead seriously, and so, evidently, do his millions of readers. A devoted child of the audiovisual age, the millionaire author still likes to get up in the morning and switch on rock 'n' roll. King, his wife Tabitha and their three children alternate between an airy modern house in a Maine village...
...slow in actually paying compensation to former landlords and in delivering new titles to the cooperatives. Of the 330 farms turned into cooperatives, only six have been given clear titles of ownership. All of the farmers who bought land under Phase 3 have received only provisional titles. Says Salvadoran Communal Union Leader Guillermo Blanco...
When the Coop begins its second century tomorrow, it celebrates a tradition of communal service, one that began in 1882 when Harvard students united to beat the high prices of textbooks and firewood. But ironically, the Coop of 1982 seems more a monopoly than a cooperative. Its vast expansion into Boston markets, in which few students participate, has helped deprive students of the membership control that was once a hallmark of the Coop...