TITLE

Notes From Bucharest

AUTHOR(S)

Parker, Roger

PUB. DATE

August 1974

SOURCE

America;8/10/1974, Vol. 131 Issue 3, p54

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article provides information on the need for an alternative life style among Europeans and Americans in the light of the energy crisis. It discusses the directions of change as a result of this reformed lifestyle. It features the author's experience of the alternative lifestyle in Bucharest, Romania. It describes Bucharest as a consumer society and cites authority as the bond of Romanian unity. Moreover, it explores the author's idea that Romania is a big novitiate.

ACCESSION #

35980861

Tags: ALTERNATIVE lifestyles;  SUSTAINABLE living;  COMMUNISM & society

 

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