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Miss Luscomb also favors "cooperative living" and indeed lives in a Cambridge commune with seven other women and men. None of this activity would be very unusual were it not for the fact that Florence Luscomb...
Miss Luscomb is hardly a Jenny-come-lately to the barricades, a dotty old lady off on a senile lark. Her present politics and life-style are merely extensions of a lifelong devotion to progressive causes, and she conducts her activist's life with grace and dignity. The commune-or "co-op," as the residents prefer to call it-is quiet and orderly; each member has his or her own room and is free to come and go at will. Says Michael Widmer, 32, a Boston journalist and founder of the commune: "At first we were kind of surprised...
Even so doughty an activist as Miss Luscomb has to say no once in a while though. Soon she plans to withdraw temporarily from the commune and retire, as she does each summer, to the solitude of her one-room cabin in the New Hampshire woods. There she can light her kerosene lamp, read the Guardian and her books about Karl Marx, and look across her vegetable garden to nearby Mount Chocorua-a 3,475-ft. peak she scaled four years...
...Progressive Labor Party (PLP), which describes itself as a "revolutionary communist party," and is dedicated to "fighting for world communism." is organizing a march to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Paris Commune. Mayday is a traditional holiday in Socialist countries, and among communist parties. Chicago's very own Haymarket Massacre gave rise to the celebration, a fact that rarely gets into high school American history texts. Marching in New York with militant radicals on May I, even if you disagree with their political analysis and organization, is likely to have more effect on the building of socialism...
Opus Dei members, however, have a reputation for extreme conservatism. At Elmbrook, life is outwardly more restrained than life in a Harvard House. A recent Life article described Elmbrook's Columbia counterpart as "a tasteful commune for conservatives...