Word: communing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Born. To Philip F. Berrigan, 50, peace activist and former Josephite priest, and his wife and onetime fellow federal-prison inmate Elizabeth McAlister, 34, former Sacred Heart nun and also a peace activist: their first child, a girl; in Baltimore. The baby was born at Jonah House, the pacifist commune where her parents now live...
...BARRING COMMUNES. Belle Terre, L.I., is a well-to-do residential community that fills less than a square mile with 700 people in 220 homes. To preserve its character, it passed a regulation in 1970 restricting land use to one-family dwellings in which any number of related persons are allowed to live. But the zoning ordinance allows a maximum of two persons unrelated by blood, adoption or marriage to set up housekeeping. In effect, an unmarried couple could live together, but arrangements involving three or more roommates are barred. The Stony Brook campus of the State University...
...book's last stop is Thompson's visit to a far-out colony called Findhorn, near Inverness in Scotland. The Findhornians devoutly believe that "matter is a condensation of consciousness." Therefore "you can commune with plants and spirits of nature if you know how to pitch your consciousness at the same vibratory level." Thompson likes the idea, in part because it appears in so many pantheistic myths and in part because his search is for just such an evolutionary potential...
Playing the sophisticated lady in Noel Coward's 1932 commune comedy Design for Living, Vanessa Redgrave, 37, lights up London's West End every evening with brittle charm. Come morning, however, she is out on the hustings...
...with reality. Last week ABC Television presented Can Ellen Be Saved?, a TV movie that depicted an aggressive, doctrinaire Jesus sect called the Children of Jesus. The fictitious sect was obviously a thinly disguised counterpart of the real-life Children of God, complete with a West Coast farming commune, buses that sweep into cities to pick up new converts, biblical aliases for the members and a frank affection for the money and property gleaned from converts...