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...farmhouse called Llano, and a dormitory called Oneida. Bulletin boards list upcoming cultural events, and young people lounge on hammocks, reading and engaging in serious discussions. The smell of farm-fresh cooking is everywhere. The resemblance to Walden Two is more than superficial. Twin Oaks, a 123-acre farm commune nestled in the foothills of Virginia's Piedmont, is a remarkable attempt to create a Utopian community governed by Skinner's laws of social engineering...
While it is still considerably poorer than Walden Two, Twin Oaks has gone farther toward the goal of behavioral control than might have seemed reasonably possible. It is too soon, however, to call the commune much more than a fascinating experiment...
...found a girl, a handsome, forceful young woman named Suzannah Thoresen. After only two meetings, Ibsen begged her to marry him and make him "something great in the world." From the first, says Meyer, it was a marriage of creative convenience. Day after day, Suzannah packed him off to commune with his scorpion, whipped up his flagging spirits, shooed his time-wasting friends away. "Ibsen had no steel in his character," she said flatly. "I gave it to him." The steel soon made its mark. In 1863, Ibsen wrote The Pretenders, his first popular success. On the strength...
Some day, it has been said, this problem will partly solve itself because more and more people will find it increasingly easy to obtain their pleasure without paying for it. Now that we have the Pill, the coed dorm and the commune, what need is there for the streetwalker, much less the bordello? So far, though, these predictions have not come true; even in societies that have long been considerably more libertarian than ours, somehow the appeal of prostitution stubbornly remains. In emancipated Sweden, where premarital sex is considered a civil right, there are very few streetwalkers nowadays, but Stockholm...
...Tripping Rods. The painful difficulty of learning that lesson is made clear in Stephen Diamond's What the Trees Said, the story of a single commune located near Montague, Mass., just south of the Vermont line. Diamond's book chronicles how a cadre of city-bred radical journalists slowly adapted to life on an abandoned farm. For some of the ego-tripping rads, the hardscrabble experience was, quite literally, unbearable (one committed suicide). For Diamond, it was a solution with flaws-very like his far-too-cute journal of the change...