Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Buildings destroyed about 1200 B.C., by "sons of Hercules"--who establishment a dynasty in Sardis about that time, according to the Greek historian, Heroplus--were included among the findings. Traces of buildings which perished in a fire around the same time were discovered 30 feet underground...
...bomb shelters are to be built, they should very clearly symbolize the threat of ultimate destruction. But when every drug store in every town carries a large stock of "do-it-yourself" bomb shelter kits, when Civil Defense authorities publicly argue about the most attractive design for an underground city, Civil Defense measures come to symbolize the prospects for ultimate security. But to accept such artificial security is to hide from the clearest and most terrifying reality in the world today. To accept emotionally the prospect of the human race huddling underground indefinitely is tacitly to abandon everything...
...want war" but persistently indicates that war is highly likely and America had better mobilize all its resources in preparation--these are the enemies of groups like SANE. The Civil Defense Commissioner who hires a team of interior decorators to plan comfortable, airy rooms for the inevitable underground New York City presents, in the long run, a far more serious threat than those men who spend their time haranguing in front of the Overseas Press Club because Nikita Khrushchev was invited to speak there...
...Alfred Hermann von Falkenhausen. 81, World War II occupation governor of Belgium, who was imprisoned in 1944 by the Gestapo for his alleged part in an anti-Hitler conspiracy and from 1945 to 1951 by the Allies; and Cecile Vent, 54, wealthy Belgian also jailed by the Gestapo for underground work; both for the second time; in Nassau, Germany...
...another publisher, who brought it out in 1941. Many reviewers were harsh on Author James Agee. Less than half of the book's 2,500 copies were sold, and the rest were slowly remaindered. But gradually Famous Men came to life in a sort of readers' underground. It is now reissued in a fine and welcome new edition...