Word: communed
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...wish to die with my first wife." He loved the time for its vivid gaiety: "I thought the '60s were what life was." The decade eventually took on sinister aspects. Mee had his misadventures with alcohol and speed; he ruefully describes his visit to a filthy rural California commune that had even contrived to have its own black slum: "a grotesque parody of the very worst of the world they had wished to escape...
...sure how the community started. I don't know who collared whom, who was seeking what or whether they all found it. I know they toyed with the notion of starting a commune and quickly settled for a community. Most of the collective or cooperative ventures failed or at least did not quite succeed. Political and philosophical intentions that bloomed in the late '60s did not overcome entrenched individualism. No one applied as much energy to assigned tasks as to personal projects. No one cared meticulously for the machinery the group held in common...
...bloodiness of the uprisings and the slaughter of many young radicals disillusioned Sand, causing her to retreat to her old country home and withdraw from politics to write peacefully until her death in 1876. Horrified by the violence, she opposed the revolutionary uprisings and the rule of the 1871 Commune. But she retained the belief that socialism would occur gradually at a point distantly in the future, writing, "I am, as always socially red...but one must never impose one's convictions by force...
Andrew E. Strominger '75 spent a year and a half away from Harvard, first living on a commune in New Hampshire and then traveling in the People's Republic of China...
...live a spartan existence, clothed in the ubiquitous unisex padded jacket and trousers. It has been alleged that Chiang Ch'ing secretly ordered two dozen custom-made dresses in the space of one month, at a total cost of 760 yuan ($400). On a visit to the agricultural commune of Tachai, Chiang Ch'ing "arrived by special train with an entourage of 100 persons," recalled a local official. "Her personal effects had to be carried by several trucks, and she occupied the entire guesthouse, which has a capacity of receiving more than 100 guests. She opened...