Word: underground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the Nathan Marsh Pusey Underground Library opened its doors this week, some of its system-builders were there admiring their handiwork...
...Paris press conference to discuss both his life as a dissident in the U.S.S.R. and his three-year purgatory in Soviet prisons and mental hospitals. He had been accused of anti-Soviet activities, namely protesting the arrests and trials of other dissidents and publishing his views in samizdat (underground) publications. In what is now a classic Soviet method of punishing dissidents, Plyushch was interrogated, imprisoned and finally sent to an insane asylum administered by the KGB, the Soviet secret police. His account of his experience is perhaps the most damning indictment so far of the way that the Soviets...
...influence while openly approving such palatable ideas as a mixed economy, a multiparty system and a free press. France's party seems to be following suit, even repudiating the sacred doctrine of the dictatorship of the proletariat; and Spain's emerging Communists, lean and muscular from the underground, show signs of similar adaptability...
...until June 30, 1977) of its authority to require power plants and other major fuel consumers to switch from scarce natural gas and oil to coal, which the country has in abundant supply. In addition, loan guarantees totaling $750 million were authorized for small coal operators to open new underground mines, which do less damage to the environment than surface mines; 80% of the loans will go to producers of less-polluting low-sulfur coal...
...shouting comes from Patti Smith, 29, an intriguing newcomer on the rock-music scene whose first album, Horses (Arista), has been climbing fast since its release in November. A few months ago, she was just another aspiring singer on Manhattan's underground nightspot circuit. Grafted to primitive three-chord rock, Smith's raw soprano and often menacing lyrics emerge in an effect that is curiously vulnerable. With her fame spreading almost as suddenly as the sales of her album, some music executives see Smith as a potential Janis Joplin. Bob Dylan has paid a benedictory visit...