Word: communing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students say they already had experienced heavy draughts of labor even before entering the college's gates. After graduation from junior or senior high school, all of them had taken up physical labor at an agricultural commune, factory or army unit for a period of at least two years...
None except the "elders"-experienced Children who apparently "grow" into authority-goes anywhere alone. Married couples share rooms within the commune, but single members are rigidly separated in male and female dormitories. Letters to and from home are censored by the elders. Many of the Children insist that the rigorous life is necessary to prepare themselves for the Communist takeover that they expect to come before doomsday...
...single order of symbols to work effectively on us all." The new myths must be internalized and individual, and each man must find them for himself. Some, in fact, are following mythological paths today, unconsciously and without design. The hippie who leaves society and goes off to a commune, for example, is being guided by a mythological map of withdrawal and adventure laid down by Christ in the desert, the Buddha at Bodh-Gaya, and Mohammed in his cave of meditation at Mount Hira...
They partly offset the shortage with the use of paramedics, who are called "barefoot doctors" in rural areas and "Red Guard doctors" in the cities. They are peasants, housewives and factory workers who divide their time between their regular jobs and medical duties. Based in commune dispensaries or urban "lane clinics," the paramedics get little formal training; they learn by watching and listening to physicians...
...only resents the "proud and powerful" male-chauvinist engine; she hates the noise and the jolting and the smoke, and longs instead to become "something quiet and simple like a lovely elm tree." Eventually Katy flies off the rails to lodge between two tall hemlocks, a permanent one-woman commune for birds and squirrels...