Word: communed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...best-known bootlegging collective, southern California's Rubber Dubber, looks more like a corporation than a commune. It has a production staff of 40 to 50, plus a sales force of hundreds peddling to retailers and at rock concerts. Rubber Dubber sends direct-mail advertisements to record-store managers, retains an attorney to fight occasional lawsuits from legitimate recording companies, and even pays royalties to artists whose works are bootlegged. The organization produces upwards of 300,000 albums a year...
...admits, will take many years - so many that "I am constantly reminded of Mao's Long March." In order to shorten the time, Nakauchi intends to open a "university" for his store chiefs by year's end. The atmosphere will be more like that of a Maoist commune than of a school; managers will live together in barracks and intersperse their studies with marches and drills. A veteran of World War II service in the Japanese army, Nakauchi views business as combat: "We must inculcate in our managers a brute force for beating down all our rivals...
...Steve Hornyak, 30, of The Crimson Bridge, gave up a $35,000 house, a Toronado, and a career as a school-band director when another Jesus musician challenged him to "go tell about Jesus." Scott Ross, 31, a former New York disk jockey, has become head of a Christian commune in Freeville. N.Y., the Love Inn. Ross still tapes a weekly show that he uses to promote Jesus music on standard stations...
...Correspondent Karsten Prager. "The voices are quiet, the words that recur are 'love' and 'blessing' and 'the Lord' and 'sharing' and 'peace' and 'brothers and sisters.'" Twelve "brothers and sisters" live in Solid Rock, six men, four women, two babies, the children of unmarried mothers. The men of the commune work at house painting and construction to meet the bills, but the main business of the house is to order the lives within it around Christ. One of the mothers describes the success of that effort simply: "When I first came to the house, I didn't know Jesus...
...crises of the Russian and Chinese revolutions necessitated different answers which reflected, in part, two economic development models. Russia chose to use bourgeois incentives of pay differentials to create an industrial elite of management and trained experts. Mao, on the other hand, challenged Russian socialism in his 1956 commune program. In effect, he said that rapid industrialism was not necessary to achieve security and that moral exhortations alone were sufficient to rouse the populace to work. Thus, a new ideology developed alongside Russia's. Third World politics among socialist nations such as North Vietnam, North Korea and Cuba have since...