Word: caveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subway tunnels, beleaguered commuter trains and jampacked terminals, they joked and chattered, waiting from minute to minute for the reviving whine of dynamos, the first stutter of returning light. And, incredulously, they began to realize at last that they had been transported to Caliban's world, a vast, trackless cave without warmth or wheels, without hot food or the lights of home...
...William R. Halliday, 49, is a chest surgeon by profession; by avocation he is a spelunker in the caves of the limestone belt that stretches from Ohio and Kentucky to New Mexico. "Curiosity takes you underground in the first place," he says. "And once there, you're hooked. You discover one thing, and that's never enough; you're always pushing back, and then back beyond that. Everything underground seems to ask a question. I've seen this challenge change a motorcycle punk in Los Angeles into a Ph.D." A cave's size or depth...
...Foundation's grant four years ago, he first tried a setting of DuBose Heyward's novel Mamba's Daughters, was deep into it when the project had to be scuttled be cause of copyright problems. Then he tackled an original libretto by a friend, entitled The Cave. But alas, says Rorem, "after I had finished the whole thing, nobody knew what it was all about, including...
George E. Cave '63, one of the two Harvard students there, was told by one man that "they ought to put you inside the gate and ship you and the whole damn bunch overseas." Josef Mlot-Mroz, a Polish refugee who has attended nearly all Boston area demonstrations, shouted "Down with Communist dupes and stooges!" and set fire to two simulated Russian flags...
...opinions and whether it is worth the bother. And these are in turn part of the failure of American attitudes and institutions to accommodate--let alone encourage--dissent. In view of this, it is important to mention the individual actions inspired by the appeal--that Jacquelyn Evans and George Cave returned their medallions, that I wrote to President Johnson and the Times, that perhaps other Scholars have acted of whose behavior we three are unaware...