Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meantime, American atomic submarines polish off the hidden evil Russians, foiling their scheme for world domination. But this is secondary to the miracles of personality transformation that take place underground. With endless fanfare and speeches, Farr gives up his mistress and his wife gives up the bottle; the Japanese engineer and the Chinese student get together--but only after a painfully long dissertation on tolerance and race prejudice; the Vassar girl becomes very attached to a meter-reader and undertakes his education (he's really very bright); Farr's mistress proves that she has a heart of gold. Finally, after...
...continues. Not content with saving a handful of people Wylie insists on a whole regiment. Indeed he has little choice: with so many themes to handle, he needs a wide variety of ministers to preach, and sinners to reform. He also needs time, so he keeps his actors underground for two years...
...Miracles Underground...
...Paris, the police have succeeded in driving most brothels underground, but an estimated 20,000 prostitutes are still available to tourists and domestic males. The most expensive (around $20) work the Champs-Elysées, and in a declining order of price and pulchritude come the girls of the Madeleine, the Gare Montparnasse. Place Pigalle and Les Halles. Britain's Street Offenses Act, passed in 1959, has ended the processions of undulating whores that used to fill up Piccadilly Circus, Bayswater Road and Hyde Park. Borrowing a trick from their sisters in Amsterdam, many London prostitutes...
...that some have thought he might be Ilya Ehrenburg, the protean figure in Soviet literature who has survived all changes and has written well as revolutionary, emigre, Stalinist, and satirist. Whatever his name, and however his manuscripts are gotten out of Russia (via what the publishers call an intellectual underground), he writes fictional parables that illuminate the reality of Soviet life by the light of fantasy...