Word: livings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lawyers have advised the Mennonites that no laws were broken and that they must live with their mistake. But the group has deposed Reimer, a drastic step for their communal church. Many Mennonites, disillusioned with their church hierarchy, have also stopped attending Sunday services. "I'll tell you the truth," says Klassen. "Us Mennonites are not true Christians any more because of all this trouble. There's no love between...
Despite the deportation sentence hanging over them, the Mennonites have moved off the Seven-O Ranch and settled in or near Seminole. They live in small frame houses or trailers scattered about town. Mennonite schools have sprung up. While the women in their traditional loose-fitting dresses do the baking and sewing chores, most of the men, who have taken to cowboy boots and hats, labor as welders, mechanics and carpenters. "They are the hardest working people I've ever seen," says one Seminole resident. "I thought those kind of people had disappeared...
...these islands and such ascetic resorts as Makrinitsa, on Mount Pelion in central Greece, the settlements offer little in the way of formal entertainment. Their purpose is to encourage tourists to live the natural life of villagers and draw deep from the country's historic wellsprings. Some may even learn Greek...
...helm and wants to break out of a contract with two more years to run. Carson's blasts about overwork and diminishing creativity have a strangely familiar sound. Not unlike the media war he waged against NBC two years ago in order to trim his five-a-week live appearances...
...quit his high-paying, esteem-lowering job as the writer of a trendy TV comedy show to write a true and unsparing novel about the way he and his bright, privileged New York friends live. He is visiting the second of his two former wives. She was bisexual when they met, but after living with him for a few years she has become a lesbian. It is a choice he has still not come to terms with. "You knew my history when you married me," she says in self-defense. "My analyst warned me," he admits, but then, wrapping...