Word: communed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Syracuse University dropout who claimed to have made millions in Wall Street by helping entrepreneurs get financing. After dropping out again-this time to Katmandu -Moss dreamed up a plan that seemed to to be irresistible: for an initial fee of $50, anyone could enlist in a quasi commune called Freelandia and cash in on the cheap air fares that maximum capacity, low overhead and Moss's brains would make possible...
Tune and place are also cut loose; interwoven with the story of Karl's transformation are 18 historical sketches covering more than 100 years of European history. Moorcock shows Karl as an orphan who sees his mother murdered in the Paris Commune of 1871. From a London sweatshop in 1906 he is drawn into revolutionary violence. Later he plays the violin in Auschwitz. The book is by turns puzzling, funny and shocking. By 1990, with Karl sitting in the ruins of London, Moorcock has brilliantly demonstrated his point-that man's imagination has always driven him deep Into...
...York as possible, reveling in bars and dirt and cheap hotels and the like. Anything that smacks of either youth culture or the working class or, best of all, a combination of the two, sends him into ecstasy. Smoking marijuana, for instance, especially in a factory or a commune, is always tremendously meaningful: "The smoke striking into my lungs sends my blood leaping. And soon the flying sparks, the hot steel, the raging, exploding furnaces above us seem like mere frivolities on a carnival night...
...faculty spectrum is John G.S. Flym, whose shoulder-length black hair, denim overalls and work shoes corroborate his students' description of him as the "radical" of the faculty. Flym came to teach at Northeastern by way of Harvard Law School (a 1964 graduate) and the Law Commune, a Boston-based group of leftist lawyers through which Flym served as counsel for Harvard students brought to trial for their participation in the 1969 takeover of University Hall. Flym's class on Constitutional Issues studies the decisions of the three-year old Burger Court, and the analysis of cases often devolves into...
...diverse Berkeley radical elements, to uncover the shape of the S.L.A. and the identities of the nine suspects. The reason for the difficulty is the Symbionese Liberation Army's small and communal organization. Explains one federal law enforcement official: "It has no visible national structure to attack. Against a commune, conventional informants are totally ineffective...