Word: underground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rabin was born in Jerusalem in 1922 to Russian parents (his father had spent 15 years in the U.S. before moving to Palestine during World War I to become a soldier in the Jewish Legion). At the age of 19, Yitzhak joined the elite, secret branch of the Jewish underground, the Palmach. Soon after, he met a high school girl named Leah Schlossberg, whom he married...
Although sharp ideological differences had emerged among the three Communist groups during the campaign-a fact that undoubtedly contributed to their poor electoral showing-this night they could all share in the mood of jubilation that Communists of every leaning were no longer members of an underground but free and open citizens of Greece. As the music died, shortly before midnight, the crowd dispersed peacefully, still smiling and humming...
...minutes later, a second bomb blast transformed the nearby Tavern in the Town into an even grislier scene. The shock waves of the explosion rebounded between the walls of the underground pub, turning flying debris into deadly missiles. Water poured onto the floor and the ceiling fell, as frantic survivors stumbled toward the exit over the bodies of the dead and maimed. Susan Edkin, 18, and her fiance were celebrating their engagement. "People were shouting and screaming," she said later. "I remember there was a man lying on the floor who couldn't see because his eyes had gone...
...Dallas, from all appearances, had been bent on getting Stoney Burns for years. His real name is Brent Stein, but under his nom de plume he was the publisher of an underground paper, Dallas Notes. In the late '60s his weekly hassled civic leaders. The authorities reciprocated in kind. First police busted Burns on obscenity charges because of some earthy expletives in the paper. A jury acquitted him. Next, a disturbance at a 1970 rock concert led to charges of inciting resistance to police officers. A jury convicted, but an appeals court reversed. Then the cops got serious. They...
...time. On some level I am, but it's hard to know. Since I began reading I've seen the contractions between the way people speak and the way they acted, beginning with parents and teachers. But I never formalized impressions until I began reading, like Dostoyevsky--"Notes from Underground"--and Chekhov. In them I see "say A, but inderstand BCDE." This is what draws me into the theater and film. It's a way of investigating these contradictions...