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...life called "The New Hedonism" (see cut). Officials at the local college were promptly besieged by complaints from alumni, and a dean called Zonker Harris to explain. Zonker blamed the exaggerated story on TIME's reporter and editors: "They're just jealous, sir-they missed out on communal living...
...years a handful of communal farmers were the only inhabitants of the 120-acre area of thicket and coconut groves 20 miles south of Mexico's swank Acapulco resort on the Pacific. Then in 1968, Dallas multimillionaire Troy V. (for Victor) Post, newly enriched by the sale of his Greatamerica Corp. to Ling-Temco-Vought for $500 million, brought his genius and fortune to bear on the wasteland. Before long he had transformed it into an earthly paradise, a resort complete with a luxury hotel and detached villas, two of the world's best golf courses, an Olympic...
...actions would be to abolish rent, to take over all private medical and legal services, and to nationalize all private and missionary schools. Machel's first press release after independence called for a development strategy that relies on the party core to organize the rural population into "revolutionary societies--communal villages...where that population will have an organized life, developing production collectively on the basis of their traditions, and promoting the exchange of knowledge." Machel stressed the need for unity in Mozambique, for, he said, divisions within society can only thwart Mozambican development...
...often mistaken for other nostrums of the '60s and '70s, but it has little or no relationship to most of them. For example, Esalen, which inspired the encounter movement in the '60s, in cludes such therapy as nude communal bathing and rolfing?deep-probing, painful massages that are supposed to release the unawakened consciousness. Arica, a nationwide spiritual organi zation, searches for "the Essential Self through, among other things, Egyptian gymnastics and African dances. Meditation is only incidental to Arica, and involves concentrating on the plan ets Jupiter and Saturn and the colors blue and black. Est, a San Francisco...
Life underground for the 200 members was a grubby odyssey of communal apartments, petty theft and clandestine meetings. Supported by as many as 4,000 sympathizers, the hard-core members lived in "safe houses" that were typically located in rundown working-class neighborhoods or near campuses. In addition, several havens were provided in middle-class neighborhoods by wealthy sympathizers...