Word: subterranean
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SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE. If you loved the painting, you'll like the show. Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine based their Broadway musical on Georges Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte and found subterranean seisms of feeling: hostile, wistful, possessed...
...Only Connect" was Forster's epigraph for Howards End, a plea to unite civilized ponds with subterranean wells of feeling. Unfortunately, he had no exact idea until age 30 of how men and women made love, a defect that Author Katherine Mansfield tartly noted in Howards End: "I can never be perfectly certain whether Helen was got with child by Leonard Bast or by his fatal forgotten umbrella. All things considered, I think it must have been the umbrella...
...valiant attempt to instill some life into what is essentially a theatrical museum piece. Director JoAnna Akalaitis has remained dutifully faithful to the script--down to Beckett's own mention of the Ritz cracker--even when the dialogue becomes an awkward partner to the massive visual impact of the subterranean set and Hamm and Clov garbed respectively as a Rastafarian and a grown-up street urchin...
Some companies go even farther. The Hewlett-Packard site in Loveland is one example, the underground vault constructed in Rhode Island by a consortium of banks to store electronic data during a nuclear war is a another, and the subterranean vault run for AT&T by Vital Records, Inc, in Raritan N.J. is a third. Isn't that comforting; even after a nuclear war, you'll still get your telephone bill...
Moreover, the current debate, if not always enlightening, is healthy. Just as there are cycles of public upheaval and quietude on great issues like nuclear weapons, so too with religion. It is natural that Americans should periodically vent their feelings about so powerful, though often subterranean, an influence as religion. And then agree to retire to their respective churches for a little meditation, penance perhaps, until the next round...