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...thousands have access to some kind of rural retreat. "Every summer Friday afternoon half of Moscow seems to leave the city," reports TIME'S John Shaw. "Even a quarter-acre of Mother Russia's soil gives them a place to escape to from the aggravations of communal urban life. Tens of millions of country-born Russians have been converted into citydwellers by industrialization in a generation or less. Many of them remain country folk at heart. To ordinary Russians, the extravagant, arbitrary privileges of their leaders, most powerfully symbolized by the secluded, luxurious villas of officialdom, will matter...
Both as film and theater, the work's documentary pretensions cut against its major points. Beyond their political ideology, the Berrigans are part of the radical movement in the Catholic Church which is intent on establishing communal religious celebrations at the same time that they forward social change. None of the exhilarating sense of release from Rome and of their free-wheeling new identity, which are part of the experience of the movement, is felt from the Berrigan work. What should be a spiritual bacchanalia comes off more like a wake. It's no wonder that the film closed early...
Over the years, as they spread into other states and increased their numbers to about 60,000, the Amish have still clutched that religious freedom doggedly. As one result, they can stand as heroes to laissez-faire conservatives on the one hand and to hippie-type communal dropouts on the other. Though they are farmers, they steadfastly refuse farm subsidies. They do not need, or want, welfare payments of any kind. They refuse to pay Social Security taxes or accept Social Security benefits: care of the elderly, they insist, is their religious duty. They do not want to grow rich...
TRED AFTER TWO NIGHTS of communal snoring on the hard floors of one Union Methodist Church, the Harvard students retreated from Capitol Hill after the Byrd vote late Tuesday afternoon...
Samuel Pisar, who is a naturalized American living in Paris and the widely acclaimed author of Coexistence and Commerce, is perhaps the paradigm of the existential, communal kind of Jew. Of the 900 students in his Polish elementary school, Pisar is one of two to survive the holocaust. He calls the communal ties of Jews a "bond of suffering that comes whenever Jews are threatened." He felt the pull of that bond when he attended an international conference in Kiev last summer. After a VIP tour of the city, he became uneasy. "The [concentration camp] numbers...