Word: communed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Roche is no better as the imperialist. He once bombed power plants as a member of the resistance in South Africa and now works for a British firm that originated from a slaveholding interest. Roche's big job is to subsidize Jimmy Ahmed's revolutionary "commune," in the corporate effort to head off more violent threats of revolution. He is confused about his role, as he lives with the rich whites, works for them, but also works indirectly to hasten their downfall...
Regular readers of comic strips will immediately recognize the illustration on our cover this week as the work of Cartoonist Garry Trudeau. The seven Doonesbury characters that he drew for us are the main inhabitants of Trudeau's Walden Puddle Commune: Uncle Duke, sitting smugly with an ever-present cocktail in hand, surrounded by flaky, pot-smoking Zonker Harris, Virginia, Michael J. Doonesbury himself, Joanie Caucus, football-playing B.D. and Megaphone Mark Slackmeyer, the local campus radical...
Occasionally, of course, other characters turn up in Doonesbury's world. For a while, one visitor to the commune was a fictional TIME correspondent called Roland Burton Hedley Jr., a handle Trudeau could have concocted from three of the names on our masthead: Los Angeles Correspondent Roland Flamini, Boston Bureau Chief Sandra Burton and Editor-in-Chief Hedley Donovan. In the strip, Correspondent Hedley arrived at the off-campus Doonesbury commune near Boston with instructions from a "Mr. Grunwald," another character possibly borrowed from TIME's masthead, to begin reporting for "our annual 'state-of-the-student...
...strip's pivotal character is the pencil-nosed naïf Michael J. Doonesbury, a founding member of the Walden Puddle Commune and an armchair liberal who spends much of his time, quite literally in an armchair, sampling the world's lunacy from television newscasts. He seems to have a gift for the mal mot, telling a menacing group of black separatists, "Hey, ol' Martin Luther King was one heck of a fellah, wasn't he?" or informing a $65,000-a-year rock entrepreneur in California that "back East you 'Frisco hipsters are kind...
...Puritan self-criticism that many Mormons seem to lapse into. "This urge," she says, is "probably a weakness." Instead of counting on church services for instilling her with piety, she reprimands herself. I should follow the lesson of Mormon friends, she tells herself, who find time each day to "commune or nourish themselves spiritually." But, she adds, "I need help to do that...