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Most students might worry that being 15 and at the College would create awkward weekend situations. But Strominger had his own plans-he headed for the New Hampshire commune that had been his home for the summer. The next year, he lived there full time...
...Hampshire commune was a complete disaster. I was there for almost two years, I think, but by the end everybody was bankrupt or divorcing one another," he says...
Circuitous is a work some might use to describe Strominger's career path. After the New Hampshire commune went bankrupt, Strominger returned to Harvard to learn Chinese, then went to live on a commune in China, "to see how they...
...just as the Aeneid is about Aeneas, so is the Saskiad the story of Saskia White. Saskia, a twelve-year-old of fierce intelligence and a tendency toward literary agglomeration, lives with her ex-hippie mother and a horde of small children and quiet adults in a tumbledown former commune near Ithaca, New York. Busying herself during the day with school, the little ones and cooking duties, Saskia spends her off hours reading. The imaginary world she creates around herself is rich with the images and characters of her favorite stories--not "fantasy" tales, but ancient epics of sailors, travelers...
...three jump--a dreamlike scene of letting go--and discover a commune of becalmed, largely indistinguishable migrants much like themselves. Weeks go by without exhilaration or despair. The beach dwellers fish, steal a little marijuana from an illicit plantation and work on their tans. Eventually, perhaps because everyone has read Lord of the Flies, things fall apart nastily. But even this calamity, which involves blood and dead people (the pot growers lose patience), does not touch the survivors. They grab sandals and rucksacks and move on. Richard reports all this a year later from London, where he is tethered...