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...peaceful text-book tactics which have brought frustration, or by the more expedient terrorist activities tainted with the unsavory odor of gangsterism? It takes Joseph two years to decide upon the second course. Through Joseph's eyes, Koestler gives the reader a vivid impression of a typical Marxist agricultural commune, and the immense difficulties involved in buying desert and turning it into a self-sustaining home are presented in detail. Joseph contrasts the high-strung, intellectual European Jew with the ". . . blond, freckled, broad-featured, heavy-boned farmers' sons, peasant lads . . . and slightly dull,"--the new Jewish strain developing in Palestine...
Because the Portland Oregonian radio columnist, Bill Moyes, had been taking too many off-beat pokes at local politics. the Oregonian last week spirited him out of town. Until elections were over he would "commune with the prairie dogs" and write about just plain radio...
...time chosen by Koestler is 1937-39, a tense period when many Jews turned from the conference table to armed terrorism. Koestler tells the story of a typical Jewish commune and the 25 pioneers from Europe who settled it. Starting from scratch on a barren, rock-strewn hilltop, they wind up, two years later, with a self-sufficient agricultural community supporting 300. Another novelist might have made this the whole show (having fitted in the appropriate love affairs and local Arab color), but for Koestler it is only a beginning. By the time he is through...
Since its establishment, L'Uomo Qualunque, a weekly publication written, edited, and published by Gugliemo Gainnini, has boosted its circulation to 800,000, and it has recently given birth to a daily newspaper, II Sense Commune...
...among others, a certain tweed-and-fiannel set, this story of a back writer's family which attains its dream of a colonial home in the country (social suicide if it's not in Connecticut) is obviously meant to amuse the plethora of New Yorkers whose goal is to commune with Connecticut nature...