Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...power, Bonhoeffer joined the anti-Nazi "Confessing Church," for which he later ran a secret, illegal seminary at Finkenwalde. In 1939, Bonhoeffer, who had once been a pacifist, refused the safety of exile in the U.S. Even though employed as a German intelligence agent, he secretly joined the underground...
...died before the war began, Bonhoeffer would have been remembered only as a dedicated young minister cut down before his time. But during his years of commitment to the underground, he matured from pastor to prophet. In his incomplete Ethics, he proposed a practical, person-centered morality based on love rather than law, which in some ways foreshadows today's "situation ethics" (TIME, Jan. 21). His most radical and prophetic ideas Bonhoeffer explored in the letters he wrote from Berlin's Tegel prison to his friend and fellow pastor, Eberhard Bethge. These reveal the vision...
Indeed, Beardsley dwelt in quite a new world, a velvet underground tolerated by Victorians in literature and art as long as it wore the air of fantasy. His frontispiece for John Davidson's The Wonderful Mission of Earl Lavender of 1895 shows a barely bosomed lady flagellating a middle-sexed supplicant, wielding the most fragile of whips as if it were a fan at high...
...leader was full of praise for "U.A.R.-Soviet solidarity." Then they went off to see the sights. At the High Dam and the Soviet-sponsored projects, Kosygin was largely the unsmiling inspector general from the home office. He was received well enough-except in one exchange with an unseen underground Egyptian worker at the dam site. Peering into a 100-ft. hole, Kosygin was startled by a hollow cry from within: "Long live Nasser! Long live Gamal!" Then, as an afterthought, "Welcome, Kosygin...
...didn't, but he probably would not have cared--being protected by his knowledge that, somewhere, over in Boston, in far corners of Cambridge, in the 'academic underground," there were countless esoteric households who were listening to good music, and not over their phones. --each of them sincerly thanking him for never letting the Beetles, Baez, or Beethoven's Fifth clutter his "air," and for remembering to play their favorite Renaissance music