Word: communed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tenets of the Bhagavad-Gita being sung and the goals of Gandhi's revolution acted out onstage. The opera's three acts (seven scenes) trace the beginnings of the Satyagraha movement during Gandhi's 21 years in South Africa: the founding of the Tolstoy Farm commune, the increasing resistance to discrimination against Indians, the climactic Newcastle march of 1913 in which Gandhi led striking miners in protest against restrictive racial policies. While each scene is self-contained, the effect is cumulative and powerful...
This tendency to commune by semaphore has probably not increased at all in centuries, but consciousness of it surely has. A spate of books like this season's Reading Faces and last decade's popular Body Language have explored the individual's tendency to broadcast things (unconsciously and otherwise) through all manner of physical movement and facial gymnastics. Such matters, made widely familiar by pop sociology, anthropology and psychology, have become the stuff of common conversation. Michael Korda's Power! How to Get It, How to Use It, like other books of this ilk, is mainly...
...peddler who lives in a rural area of Henan province claims that at each of three baptizing ceremonies in his commune over the past year, "300 to 400 people became Christians." The man belongs to a loose network of "house churches," which are growing rapidly, especially in farm villages...
...TIME editors spoke with dozens of Chinese, from members of the State Council (China's Cabinet) to factory managers, commune workers, educators and artists. Each provided a glimpse of the rewards and strains of modernization. Together they gave human scale to an epochal transition. Herewith, seven voices of China...
...after three years spent doing housework for 30 male commune members--Harrison painfully squeezed out of the narrow cage of fundamentalist repression. Today, she is an independent, divorced Brooklyn feminist with two children. Her unshackled intellect hasn't destroyed her; it's made her one of the hottest magazine writers in the country. But as the essays in this first collection demonstrate, she can be what the church fathers had feared: a predator in prose. She's always on the prowl for the villains that disfigured her youth hokum, slovenly thought, and moral spinelessness, the national pastimes of American...