Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...writer not for defecting but for paying the price of being a KGB informer in order to obtain permission to go abroad. By his own admission, Kuznetsov told the KGB "a pure fiction"-that Evgeny Evtushenko, Vasily Aksyonov and other liberal Russian writers were planning to publish "a frightful underground magazine." Though full of remorse for his denunciation, which could have cost the innocent writers seven years of hard labor, Kuznetsov justified it on the ground that the Soviet system requires writers to work with the KGB in order to publish, let alone go abroad. Excerpts from Amalric...
...Pavilion the highest-and most striking-building at the fair. For Osaka's Expo 70, the U.S. has come up with a switch: a ground-hugging shallow dome that will be the lowest pavilion at the fair-so low, in fact, that part of it will be underground...
...Aldwych is one of the harder theatres in London to get to: if you go by underground, you get off at Holborn and walk a very long block down to the Stand. This is its only disadvantage, however, and counterbalancing that is one overpowering merit: the Aldwych is the London home of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Perhaps the most salient comment about this group is expressed on the back of every RSC program: "The company is responsible for most of the major Shakespeare productions seen in this country." And one might add, most of the major Shakespeare productions seen...
...event is now known in underground feminist circles as the Dock of the Bay affair, and the ringleader is considered something of a heroine. She is a member of Women's Liberation, a movement that has attracted some 10,000 converts across the U.S. over the past three years. The new feminists differ widely on many issues, but on one they are united: sexism must...
That peremptory statement is the introduction to one of the year's most intriguing books, a $4 quarto-sized paperback that, mainly by word of mouth, has become an underground bestseller...