Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Moscow literary type wonders, "When will they start repressing us again to make us comfortable?" Another informs him, "We have no more problems! In the old days we had to assume that everything was a mess! Now we can look in our newspapers and confirm it!" Barley must tunnel beneath this thawing surface, test how far it takes to get to the chilling center underneath...
...Chinatown bank that paid him $18,000. Bradley also earned at least $70,000 as a director of a savings and loan bank for ten years. Although both matters were on public record and on the surface did not seem to represent a conflict of interest, the facts beneath the surface suggested otherwise. It turns out that city deposits in the Chinatown bank were doubled after Bradley made a phone call to the Los Angeles treasurer. The savings and loan bank, meanwhile, was involved in a multimillion-dollar tax dispute with the city, and had been awarded several zoning changes...
...beneath the ravaged surface of the land, there is renewed vitality in this long-suffering country, a newfound sense of confidence. Surprisingly, the government of Hun Sen, installed by the Vietnamese, has begun to seek changes that could win it something no ruler has had for two decades: popular support. Owing largely to increasingly liberal economic policies, the Prime Minister, 38, is gaining credibility both abroad and at home for departing from Communist orthodoxy...
...jungle is understanding dinosaurs. So say Albert Bernstein, a clinical psychologist in Portland, Ore., and Sydney Craft Rozen, a former English instructor at Clark College in Vancouver, Wash. In Dinosaur Brains (John Wiley; $18.95) they examine the prehistoric reptile that lurks inside every employee like an evolutionary time bomb. Beneath that fragile fabric of reason called human intelligence, they argue, beats a powerful engine of lizard logic that demands instant gratification and lives to dominate. While the dinosaurs are long gone, their brains "are the foundations on which our own brains are built...
...daunting technical virtuosity of Auden. Starting out, Larkin had the good taste to imitate all these (except Pound), with some Dylan Thomas thrown in for good measure. He got out from under his predecessors only when he learned to lower his voice, to submerge complexities of thought and feeling beneath a serene, limpid surface...