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...Captiva, in the Gulf waters that lie south of Tampa, Fla. There, equipped with two lithographic presses, he presides over a working commune of printers and friends, whose timetable has become adjusted to his: breakfast at noon, swim, work all afternoon and evening, dinner never earlier than midnight. "You can't imagine," he cackles, "how many disturbances I miss out on down here." This landscape offers the clue to his recent work, beginning with the Hoarfrosts and continuing through Jammers, a series of delicate sewn constructions of silk, twine and rattan cane. They are without pretension, and hardly displace...
...China's political climate may be uncertain, Terrill says, the country remains stable socially and is ripe for sociological study. Ideology may no longer provide the vital clue to understanding China. "It's the political system at the national level that is less stable. But the family system, the communes in the countryside, the state-owned factories in the cities really run without much ideology, so Mao's thought will become an overarching ethic. The key to the stability of the commune and the factory level is organizational brilliance rather than Mao's thought." Chinese communism, Terrill explains, functions more...
Somehow what's wrong with Harvard's graduate education is conveyed in the bodiless atmosphere of the Widener stacks, Garner suggested. "The thing you're here for is largely the library. The big privilege is to have a book shelf on your stall. You commune more with books than with people. Garner, who is a native of Oklahoma and speaks with the slightest trace of a southern accent, laughed. "But at least I got to see the spring through my Widener window, even if I wasn't a part of it," he said...
...crowd at Pretty Pass (as Heck now calls his farm) keeps growing; no sooner is someone hired to do the actual work around the place than he is seduced by the "crackle of civilized conversation" inside the house and becomes a bedded and bored member of the Brown commune. As identity crises follow, the fields lie fallow. Meanwhile, Bumpers worries lest his consistently ineffectual advice will brand him not just a quack but "a quack manqu...
...Caribbean island of Mustique, where the Snowdons keep a four-bedroom retreat. Back home, according to London's News of the World, Roddy has had Margaret out on weekends at his country digs, a seedy manor house near Bath that he and friends have turned into a commune...