Word: commune
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leap orders China's 74,000-odd communes to forget about any aid from Peking. They have been told that henceforth they themselves-not the government-must remunerate schoolteachers and medical personnel working in the countryside. Commune members are to make their own simple farm tools, freeing industry for more sophisticated production. Moreover, Peking is pushing a frugality theme to such a degree that celebrations for the New Year, China's biggest and happiest holiday, were woefully crimped last month...
Fighting Lethargy. The communes are already hurting: they have to feed an estimated 20 million former urbanites -including millions of now undesirable Red Guards-whom the regime has recently sent into the boondocks for lengthy spells of physical labor. The peasants' response to Mao's latest brainstorm so far seems to have been remarkably unenthusiastic: troops had to be sent to a commune in Szechwan province to "overcome local lethargy...
...While the revolution focused on the cities, China's peasants enjoyed the unusual experience of being virtually unpoliced. Most of them took advantage of Peking's inattention to indulge in economic "crimes" of one sort or another, such as expanding their private plots at the expense of commune lands, or chop ping down state-owned timber, or with holding some grain from the government. To end this lax state of affairs, the regime has now sent thousands of "Mao Tse-tung's Thought Propaganda Teams" into the countryside. Kwangtung province alone has mobilized 50,000 industrial workers...
...leisure time now. By choice, Hollander limits himself to about 45 concert dates a year, plus a handful of recording sessions. With his wife Margot, a psychologist who teaches emotionally disturbed children, Hollander lives in a brick-walled flat five flights up in Greenwich Village. There is a hippie commune next door, and Hollander admits to sharing some of its ideals. He is in favor of "opening up," talks about "the new awareness" and believes that pot should be legalized. In a few weeks, he will give the first classical recital at Manhattan's leading rock palace, the Fillmore...
...permanent leadership intolerable): "The youth who walked out think that revolution is synonymous with insurrection. They are deluded." The anarchists finally agreed on one thing: that the conference had been a grand success. They proposed to meet again in Paris in 1971 to celebrate the centenary of the Paris Commune. In hopes for better days ahead, of course. "When capitalism crumbles, Communism crumbles with it," mused Maurice Joyeux, the official French delegate. "The two will die at each other's throats. But we, the anarchists, shall live to see a brighter...