Word: communed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among convicted officials, Guan is one of the very few to suffer the extreme penalty of execution. Most of the others have been dismissed from their posts or jailed, with the stiffest penalties going to those who tried to blame underlings. In Zhejiang province, one commune party secretary named Ji Xinquan got five years in jail for having brought trumped-up court charges against two commune members who had exposed him for stealing timber...
...article on spiritual, religious or healing groups because "we are a science of consciousness, unlike the others.") A quick scan of the phone book also turns up such groups as Eckankar, the I AM Sanctuary, the Integral Yoga Institute and the Church of Cosmic Consciousness. The Sirius commune in Amherst, an offshoot of the Findhorn Community in Scotland that prospered supposedly because of divine guidance, is organizing most of the New England communities into a "network of light...
...women with their inevitable head scarves. Though the peasants were in fact a rich repository of folklore and folk art, intellectuals invested them with other qualities. The populists believed them to possess primitive virtues that were unadulterated by the venality of the outside world. Conservatives hailed the village commune, or mir, as a cohesive force binding the empire, while the radicals perceived the mir as a ready-made basis for socialism. In his later years, Tolstoy saw the peasant as a religious figure possessing a pure and particularly Russian spirituality-a view now shared by Solzhenitsyn...