Word: communed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unfree." Instead of fulminating, he visited areas he had known as an aide to the Flying Tigers during World War II, and dug into mundane but fascinating areas of Chinese life. "There was hardly any sightseeing," he recalled. "It was going to a factory or going to a commune and spending hours and hours taking figures and tramping about endlessly seeing how the goddamned thing worked...
Such diligence paid off. Alsop's description of the economic base of a provincial commune or production methods at a small rural factory provide some of the freshest Western reporting yet from China. He even found evidence of humor in the seemingly stolid Communist leadership. At the start of a three-hour interview, Chou En-lai asked him, "Would you like to know what I really think, or would you like another of those boring public interviews...
Edward S. Englander, a worker at the Law Commune, said Monday, "I don't think the D.A. would have sought an indictment unless the report showed an assault." He asked that the report be made public...
...blossoms flower." By 1965 acrobats' status had risen so high that they were accused of being too bourgeois, lacking the "class character that would allow them to reflect the everyday struggles of the workers and peasants." Now they spend two months of every year in a factory or commune, working alongside the peasants by day and performing political skits and improvisations at night, adding new folk material to their acts...
...every Sunday off, like most office workers. Mr. Chen is a patient man. He has been applying without success to join the Communist Party since 1965. At any rate, he considers himself fortunate to be able to get away to the countryside for productive labor on a commune one month in every twelve. It is, after all, the only time in the year apart from two days in the spring that he ever sees his wife and their two children who are needed full time on the commune...