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...While the revolution focused on the cities, China's peasants enjoyed the unusual experience of being virtually unpoliced. Most of them took advantage of Peking's inattention to indulge in economic "crimes" of one sort or another, such as expanding their private plots at the expense of commune lands, or chop ping down state-owned timber, or with holding some grain from the government. To end this lax state of affairs, the regime has now sent thousands of "Mao Tse-tung's Thought Propaganda Teams" into the countryside. Kwangtung province alone has mobilized 50,000 industrial workers...
...leisure time now. By choice, Hollander limits himself to about 45 concert dates a year, plus a handful of recording sessions. With his wife Margot, a psychologist who teaches emotionally disturbed children, Hollander lives in a brick-walled flat five flights up in Greenwich Village. There is a hippie commune next door, and Hollander admits to sharing some of its ideals. He is in favor of "opening up," talks about "the new awareness" and believes that pot should be legalized. In a few weeks, he will give the first classical recital at Manhattan's leading rock palace, the Fillmore...
...permanent leadership intolerable): "The youth who walked out think that revolution is synonymous with insurrection. They are deluded." The anarchists finally agreed on one thing: that the conference had been a grand success. They proposed to meet again in Paris in 1971 to celebrate the centenary of the Paris Commune. In hopes for better days ahead, of course. "When capitalism crumbles, Communism crumbles with it," mused Maurice Joyeux, the official French delegate. "The two will die at each other's throats. But we, the anarchists, shall live to see a brighter...
...Sorbonne student knows, the road to raising hell in Paris is paved with good ammunition. The cobblestones of Paris, first laid in 1185, cracked against police helmets in the antiroyalist riots of 1830. They helped arm the socialist revolutionaries of 1848. They provided the enduring arsenal of the Paris Commune in the great battles across the barricades in 1871. With such textbook examples of tactics, it was hardly surprising that the student rioters of 1968 found the paving stones of the Left Bank a prime weapon in their nightly insurrections against the Gaullist regime...
...record career in 1964 with a hit song that he wrote in twelve minutes (Walking in the Sand). Now he produces the Vanilla Fudge, the New York Rock & Roll Ensemble and Janis Ian (Society's Child), is training three protégés at his own commune-style firm on Long Island. An autocrat in the studio, he does his own arranging and most of his engineering, proclaims: "I am the greatest producer in the business. I am also an egomaniac...