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...disillusioned radical antiwar protesters. Others were drug culturists seeking freedom from legal hassles, or flower children trying to recapture the euphoria of San Francisco's brief "summer of love." Still others were intellectual Utopians out to build non-nuclear families along the lines of B.F. Skinner's Walden Two. Most of them were urban ex-bourgeois who had frustrating confrontations with agricultural hard labor...
...creating a Utopia, an author assumes a God-like stance -a fact admitted by the social engineer who devised the briskly efficient community described in Psychologist B.F. Skinner's novel Walden Two. "I like to play God," the master-manipulator proclaims. "Who wouldn't, under the circumstances? After all, even Jesus Christ thought he was God!" In a way, it is something of a relief to turn from social architects who want to program human behavior to the modern variety of Utopian, who seeks power only for pleasure. "Do it!" commands the Utopian sprite Jerry Rubin-meaning just...
...most dedicated food faddist, though, might be put off his feed by the manner in which they dismiss milk ("The secretion of the mammary glands of cows, goats and sheep") and eggs ("the reproductive media of birds"). The one thing Living the Good Life most lacks is what Walden has in such abundance-a sense of real delight in the natural world. Man does not live by bread labor alone, nor did the Nearings, but you would not know it from their book...
...riverrun tells of a young couple fresh from Berkeley, living together somewhere in the California countryside. Opting out of conventional social strata and consumerism, they settle on a farm and attempt to live in a Walden -esque fashion. Their tranquility is upset when Sarah's father, a merchant seaman, makes a prolonged visit, waiting for the birth of his grandson. The father is a grizzled old Yankee, and ideas predictably clash with those of his equally non-conformist but distastefully aesthetic daughter and her would-be husband (the couple never marry). In a climax as overwrought as the fruitiest...
...Hostel closed, but storefront still operating. Administration offices entirely located at Old Cambridge Baptist Church. Research moved to Catholic Student Center on Arrow Street. Storefront crashing about 20 people nightly, late dinners from restaurant at the Orson Welles as well as El Diablo. Fruit and vegetables from the Walden Street Organic Market...