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...considered valueless by society. Moreover, at present, equal opportunity of employment simply means that a woman has two jobs: one at work and one at home. All work must therefore be taken out of the home and paid for like any other product; only such innovations as communal kitchens and universal child-care centers will "set women free," she says...
...candidates have come from everywhere-especially from such fretfuL or dissent-ridden groups as the Beatles, Jefferson Airplane and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. One reason behind the search for individualism is that youth in America, as elsewhere, has become less interested in rock as a mind-blowing communal expression and more curious about what individual musicians may have to say. What the rock world seems to need right now, therefore, is a high-talented, low-keyed, protest-free approach to life and sound that will appeal equally to the flower child in the young and the gardener of verses...
...become flabby with prosperity. The Helots, an oppressed race used as slave labor by the Spartans, have started an uprising against their masters. Sound familiar so far? That's about as far as contemporary parallels go. Lykourgos has forced the complete redistribution of wealth in Sparta, and set up communal dining halls where everyone regardless of rank eats the same food. He has established a successful communist state...
...sense, Yale was on a communal ego trip. It was pulled together, like a wagon train circling up before an attack, by a sense of persecution. Suddenly, everyone was united and Brewster became Joan of Arc, leading the new community against the infidels...
...Vietnam, Southeast Asia or counter-insurgency. Last year's titles include: 1) "Conflict Regulation in Deeply Divided Societies" (about Lebanon and Malaysia); 2) "Comparative Study of the Successful Military Coup d'Etat in Modern Polities"; 3) "Social Science Research for National Unity" (about Malaysia); 4) "Administration and Management of Communal Conflict" (about Malaysia); 5) "The Myth of the Guerrilla"; 6) "New Directions for the Banking System" (about Indonesia). These titles are from the DAS alone...