Word: underground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expected 10,500 athletes during the competition. Makeshift living modules have been set up on the ground floors to accommodate 1,300 athletes, with the rest scheduled to share the two buildings' 980 comfortably furnished apartments, ranging in size from one to six bedrooms. An 800-meter underground tunnel leads directly from the village to the stadium, both a convenience and a security measure...
...blue ribbon to a tree but if some asshole on a crane backs into it, some asshole on a crane has backed into it, and Jacobsen can't bring it back," Peter Shenk, a critic of a Harvard plan to build an underground library at the University-owned Dumbarton Oaks estate in Washington, said last April. Shenk, a former Dumbarton Oaks gardener who mounted a successful campaign to block the planned construction, claimed the excavation would damage the estate's famous gardens. Architect Hugh Newell Jacobsen claimed the construction would cause no permanent damage to the garden...
...wife defraud Harvard Law School, or, indeed, when a bunch of wilting females decide to revert to prehistory by forming a new finals club, you know the Revolution just isn't getting any closer. It's enough to make a vegetarian cringe. Even the Pusey Library's gone underground...Well, maybe things'll shape up next year--we tend to think they won't--but at least we've got one small consolation: We're all in this together, baby...
...assumption of our underground papers, Dylan's lyricism and images of loneliness and alienation contrasted sharply with the optimistic idealism permeating Lyndon Johnson's America. Johnson's heroes were winners--"Lucky" Lindbergh, Andrew Jackson, Franklin Roosevelt--men who made it. The heroes of the sixties were losers who survived or martyrs. Malcolm X and Che Guevera became symbols of the age. Again and again, the words of these two figures could be found in pamphlets, in underground newspapers, in conversation. The young not only kept posters on their walls, but copied the hair, the beard, the beret and the style...
...Underground (de Antonio on Weathermen...