Word: commune
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evening wears on I feel less useful and more alienated, so I assign myself the task of keeping the mayonnaise covered. After covering it 12 times I give up and decide to write home. I wonder whether the Paris Commune was this boring...
...volunteer for jock-watch from 2:00 to 3:30 but do not wake up the next man and stay out on the entrance window ledge until five. I am to let no-one in as we now have a population of 150 and we want a stable commune--no tourists. We even consider a Stalinist purge to reduce the mouths to feed. Only tonight does my roommate decide to occupy a building. I have about seven degrees of disdain and contempt for him but he got in before my watch. I stamp on the hand of anyone who leaves...
...where they can groove on folk songs, rock bands, "guerrilla" theater, body painting and meditation. Through the park they will bear on a blue pillow their very own presidential candidate: Lyndon Pigasus Pig, a ten-week-old black and white porker now afattening at the Hog Farm, a hippie commune in Southern California. Other possibilities being considered: a lie-in at Chicago's O'Hare Field to prevent Democratic delegates from landing or, failing that, a fleet of fake cabs to pick up delegates and dump them off in Wisconsin...
...whirring machinery, blaring car horns-can make him physically ill. He has been known to get off elevators before arriving at his floor because he found the "treacly tripe" of Muzak so grating. Dubbed "the Phantom" by musician friends because of his penchant for withdrawing into secluded rooms to commune with his gentle-speaking instruments, he would be happy to spend most of his time in the placid surroundings of his country house in Wiltshire, about 75 miles from noisy London...
...many of the Bolsheviks seriously doubted that they could govern the vast, chaotic land of Russia by themselves. "We can't hold out!" cried one of the prominent leaders. Lev Kamenev. Lenin himself hoped at first that the October Revolution would last as long as the Paris Commune of 1871 -71 days-to serve as a warning to capitalism. "It is most surprising," he later said, "that there was no one there to kick us out immediately." This week, to mark the 50 years that have passed since that shaky start,*the Soviet Union is holding the biggest birthday...