Word: communed
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...TIME editors spoke with dozens of Chinese, from members of the State Council (China's Cabinet) to factory managers, commune workers, educators and artists. Each provided a glimpse of the rewards and strains of modernization. Together they gave human scale to an epochal transition. Herewith, seven voices of China...
...when most kids are off at college discovering the pleasures of the mind and of the senses, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison started scrubbing toilets in a Jehovah's Witness commune. Ten years in the twisted cult convinced her that "my intelligence was some kind of tricky, predatory animal, which if not kept firmly reined, would surely spring on and destroy...
...after three years spent doing housework for 30 male commune members--Harrison painfully squeezed out of the narrow cage of fundamentalist repression. Today, she is an independent, divorced Brooklyn feminist with two children. Her unshackled intellect hasn't destroyed her; it's made her one of the hottest magazine writers in the country. But as the essays in this first collection demonstrate, she can be what the church fathers had feared: a predator in prose. She's always on the prowl for the villains that disfigured her youth hokum, slovenly thought, and moral spinelessness, the national pastimes of American...
...when seven of them piled into a friend's car heading south for an antiwar demonstration and got detained by some suspicious police in Secaucus, N.J. They never got to Washington, but they had a lot of fun calling themselves the "Secaucus Seven." Now, ten years later, they commune again for a weekend of charades and basketball and nostalgia, some skinny-dipping, lovemaking and soul searching. They're turning 30, jogging toward the compromises of early middle age -Updikescent- and out of the corner of their minds they wonder how much fun that will...
...propounded by Hua following his accession to power in 1976 are being discredited. His much publicized slogan, "Speed up socialist modernization," has been replaced by "Haste makes waste." Earlier goals set by Hua for rapid agricultural growth have been revised or abandoned. A model work brigade on a Shanxi commune that he had so zealously promoted has been exposed as having faked production figures (see following story...