Word: communed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yale Law School and living in an urban commune, Reich has ruled out careers in either regular law firms or most storefront legal-service projects because "they use law as an instrument of confrontation, not conciliation." He talks of "delegalizing" society so that people can resolve conflicts without lawyers?as in no-fault auto insurance systems. To get such ideas across, he has joined law and business students at Harvard and Yale in starting a "public policy union" to work with city officials and state legislators on social problems. He plans to get involved in Senator George McGovern's presidential...
PEOPLE in period costumes drift onto the stage. They start playing games, tag and such. A few laughs. Young, happy smiles. Meaningful interaction; instant commune. What, this pseudo-Grotowskian exercise crap, this is HARPO? But wait, that clown drooling into the bucket, the increasingly precise blocking pattern, the scene titles, then the impeccable cockney accents; this is pure Larry Senclick, the master of the rococo basics, Harvard's exponent of technical theatricality, a man who has an amazing talent for layering upon any script a tremendous variety of gimmicks, jokes, and cheap bits, and proceeding to hit them so hard...
...white men soon start to meld with the nomadic Eskimo commune. But even as the whalers learn to eat meat raw instead of "disgustingly" burning it, forget the calendar and acquire their hosts' language, they also begin to commit offenses born less of malice than of cultural differences...
Salaries begin at around 24.5 yuan or $10 a month for a peasant on a commune-an amount that varies by a system of "work points" awarded according to the work he does, his political zeal, and the harvest. The upper range is around $100 a month for a young army general or experienced technician. But rents are low, from $1 to $3 for a typical one-or two-room apartment. Vegetables in season cost only 1½? to 2? per lb., rice 7? per lb., and meat from 20? to 40? per lb. Milk is higher...
Even so doughty an activist as Miss Luscomb has to say no once in a while though. Soon she plans to withdraw temporarily from the commune and retire, as she does each summer, to the solitude of her one-room cabin in the New Hampshire woods. There she can light her kerosene lamp, read the Guardian and her books about Karl Marx, and look across her vegetable garden to nearby Mount Chocorua-a 3,475-ft. peak she scaled four years...