Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the oldie-but-goodie Emblem came Darius Milhaud's unabashedly chauvinistic Suite Francaise. Written in 1945, the piece celebrates the five provinces where American and Allied troops, together with the French underground, "fought together for the liberation of my country." Each section employs folk tunes supposedly native to a particular province of France. Milhaud intended the suite to appeal to, and be playable by, high school bands across the country, and so the music is consciously straighforward and ingratiating. The Band gave it a properly spirited performance...
...hippie subculture is relevant in a paper on college students. For the confirmed hippie, collegiate life in its usual form is anathema. Their characteristic response is asthetic rather than intellectual. Whatever hippie students there are, and there numbers are probably growing, exist mostly on the periphery or in the underground of large urban colleges and universities, in a sense dropping...
...which many of the party controls were relaxed, served to rally young people to the cause of the party. In this period, the identification by the party of their actions with the interests of the entire society found wide acceptance. The prominent role played by the communists in the underground resistance movements in the German-occuppied, or German-allied, countries of Eastern Europe during World War II contributed considerably to their popularity in 1945. A number of developments after the war, however, led to a return of disillusionment in the Soviet Union, and the beginning of disillusionment...
...that the psychedelic "revolution" is really under way, they are discovering new highs with dizzying speed, and their discoveries are passed quickly around the underground through such newspapers as Manhattan's East Village Other and the Berkeley Barb...
...daring in literature. Moreover, freer access at least allows the reading public to discover just how dull pornography really is, while suppression tends to make it even more titillating. Victorian England, for example, seems to have been as sexually depraved as any era in history-and its pornography flourished underground. Lady Snow is refreshing and courageous in speaking out, unfashionably, against the philosophy of anything-goes; but her indignation does not necessarily lead her to a realistic solution...