Word: communed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regular program beginning tonight is Bunuel's Simon of the Desert, among other things, a film from the director's Mexican period about a Christian mystic who moves to the top of a high pillar in the middle of the desert, hauling up his food by ropes, to commune with The Lord. As vicious about Catholicism as usual, with Bunuel's only attempt I've over seen to make a statement about "beat" culture (which, strangely, he likens to hell). Off the Wall, "Coffeehouse of the Arts," is at 861 Main Street in Cambridge, near Central Square...
...TIME staffers in Hong Kong, New York and Washington. The story was written by Richard Bernstein, who studied Chinese culture and language at Harvard and on Taiwan, and spent five weeks touring the mainland in 1972. Bernstein was a guest in peasants' homes on a North China commune and slept in a coed factory dorm in Shenyang. Though he found the political control "sobering," he was impressed by the people's "hopefulness, dedication and lack of cynicism." For this assignment, he was assisted by Reporter-Researcher Sara Medina, who has been working on China stories for TIME since...
Though life for the average person is spare and hard by any standard, the benefits as well as the hardships of China's progress have been distributed with a minimum of inequality. The average factory worker makes a meager $28 a month; the average peasant living on a commune about half that. Essentials, like food, medicine and housing, cost next to nothing and, to the envy of the rest of the world, have not increased in price in 20 years; yet "luxury" items, such as bicycles or radios, can soak up months of savings. The average urban worker...
RETRENCHMENT was essential. Economic order had to be restored and food production increased. Peasants, after working the required time on commune lands, were again permitted to cultivate private plots-an admission that economic incentive was still more effective than ideological exhortation. Mao resigned as head of state in favor of Liu Shao-chi (but remained Communist Party chairman). For the next half a dozen years an elite of bureaucrats, planners and pragmatists was ascendant. Ideology became secondary; priority was given to the skills needed for industrial growth...
...been right either. When I asked about the leading cadres we'd been meeting, someone said, "They are a phenomenon of China." Someone else said, "They probably feel that things are too complicated, this way they oversimplify." And a third said he was production leader on his commune and if we'd come to a formal meeting there he'd probably have limited what he said, just as the leading cadres did--"I wouldn't bring up the Seagull," he said...