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...high-living party official whose son drowns himself out of disgust with his father's profligacy and privileged life. An illicit "yellow book"-Chinese slang for porn-entitled The Heart of a Young Girl graphically details the sexual adventures of a city woman dispatched to work on a commune...
...Bhajan emigrated to Toronto, later that year moved to Los Angeles and eventually started his own ashram-spiritual commune-in a garage. Although India's Sikhs are renowned as meat eaters, Bhajan has insisted that his followers be strict vegetarians. While yoga is not part of Sikhism, Bhajan teaches the practice, and not the mild form widespread in the U.S. but Tantrism, a strenuous, mystical variety practiced by men and women in pairs. Claiming to be the only living master of Tantrism, Bhajan stresses Kundalini yoga, which supposedly releases secret energy that travels up the spine. He reveals breathing...
...student protests at Berkeley sparked passions on campuses across the country. Detroit and Newark symbolized black rage, but Watts was the first ghetto to burn. Three years before Wounded Knee fell under siege, Indian militants fought for possession of Alcatraz. Almost every state had its draft riot, hippie commune and Black Panther spokesman-but the phenomenon that each represented surfaced first in California...
Today, Luscomb is 90 years old. She lives on a quiet, tree-lined Cambridge street in a turquoise-grey house with a white front porch, an 11-member commune. Luscomb opens the door to visitors, a smiling grandmotherly figure wearing baggy black cords, a cream silk blouse and turquoise-and-silver jewelry. She peers rather hesitantly through clear pale-pink-rimmed spectacles but she moves quickly and lightly, even on a summery afternoon when the heat seems to slow every movement...
...mess. The town had started as a stagecoach stop, reached a peak population of 300 in 1939 when logging companies were cutting near by, but slumped to 100 by the time a wealthy Los Angeles widow named Elizabeth Lapple bought the place in 1973. She wanted it as a commune for her hippie children and their hangers-on. As the former residents moved out, marijuana began to sprout in the yards and rock music echoed through the forests. Within a few years, Bridgeville had turned into a rural slum in the middle of God's country. Wrecked cars...