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...newest developments in the legal profession is the idea of the law commune--lawyers, para-legal workers and clerical workers forming collective practices, splitting fees usually on the basis of need. Communes have so far met with little success. "With the profit motive out of the picture, the people in the commune found that the lawyers were competing for the big cases, and the ego-satisfaction that their attendant publicity could bring," James writes of one commune...
...Glen Burnie, Md. When they left, the store's detective said, they took with them, without paying, a $20.99 handheld electric power saw, a 690 package of sandpaper and a 190 package of picture hangers. Charged with shoplifting, the pair gave their address as Jonah House, Baltimore, a commune established by Elizabeth and Philip Berrigan for members of the peace movement. Elizabeth last faced a judge when she was convicted in 1972 of smuggling letters to Berrigan while he was in Lewisburg, Pa., federal prison...
Limelight. To the government and the financial establishment the Lip commune was a threat: the workers were challenging basic laws of a capitalist society. Gleefully, the political left whipped up L'Affaire Lip into a cause celebre...
Marge Piercy's last novel, Dance the Eagle to Sleep, was clamorously received two years ago. She wrote about the angry counterculture-runaway kids, commune dwellers-with a contemporary's sympathetic understanding and a traditional fiction style. It seemed the ideal book for the over-the-counterculture fellow who wanted to be imaginatively in touch with the hard-edged confusions of youth...
...McGuane house contrives to be orderly and chaotic at once. Many writers-Richard Brautigan, William Eastlake, Jim Harrison-show up at one time or other. Last summer they were 28 strong in Montana until someone complimented Tom on his "commune." He cleared the place out. Unsurprisingly, he can work anywhere and enjoy it. "I've made writers I know admit two things: how much they really love writing and what they owe Hemingway. I laugh when I hear one more guy say he owes everything to Ezra Pound." McGuane reveres genius. He winces when recalling that a friend told...