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...every Sunday off, like most office workers. Mr. Chen is a patient man. He has been applying without success to join the Communist Party since 1965. At any rate, he considers himself fortunate to be able to get away to the countryside for productive labor on a commune one month in every twelve. It is, after all, the only time in the year apart from two days in the spring that he ever sees his wife and their two children who are needed full time on the commune...
...kibbutzniks (commune members) lost a powerful source of motivation when the State of Israel was founded in 1948; they had long regarded their settlements and way of life as essential to the establishment of the new nation. Ever since that goal was reached, the kibbutzim have had trouble recruiting members willing to make the sacrifice that communal living demands...
...this point," Clark said, "I freaked out, hated Harvard, and wanted to leave." I through his academic studies, however, Clark became convinced that the spiritual experience he sought did in fact exist. He explored several different life-styles, ranging from macro-biotics to commune living. He even tried out guitarist John McGlaughlin's guru, but nothing satisfied...
...must remember that our army is really an armed political force. It is not the type of army you have in the United States or Great Britain. You will find that every 'most responsible person' is usually a military man, whether he be in the factory, commune or civil service. My great fear is not that we're going to take the course that you Westerners are so frightened of-expansion in Asia. What we're afraid of is that this temporary lull in the Cultural Revolution may end and we will become victims...
...maintain the harmony of the universe. *Paolo Soleri: an architect working with student apprentices in Arizona on schemes to redesign cities. Jean Piaget: eminent Swiss child psychologist. Gopi Krishna: Indian philosopher who has written about the evolution of man toward a new state of consciousness. The Lama Foundation: a commune devoted to the study of Eastern mysticism. *Ivan Illich: brilliant priest who believes in deschooling society but founded a school of his own in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Jacques Ellul: French historian and lay theologian of a Calvinist persuasion...