Word: underground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...student at Philadelphia's Temple University, but who attended Oberlin from 1972 to 1974. Scott became Weiner's mentor. After his appearance before the grand jury, Weiner refused to say anything about the group, but he did ask newsmen to send his greetings to Tania (the underground name that Patty has adopted) and "my comrade Jack and my dearest sister Micki," who clearly were the Scotts. Weiner also said that he hoped the Scotts and Patty were safe "in or out of this monster's belly," an apparent reference to American society...
Arriving at their favorite sleeping spot in Paris one chilly night last month, a group of derelicts began settling down on a sidewalk grid that spewed hot air from the Métro underground. Suddenly a figure dressed in black appeared out of the darkness and handed each of them what looked like a large plastic bag. As the bewildered bums looked on, he attached the open end of one bag to the sidewalk air vent with small metal hooks. Voilà! It ballooned into a small, conical, one-man tent. Catching on quickly, the grateful men set up their...
Daniel J. McSweeney '59, director of the department, said yesterday that the mainly underground facility, to be built on Nutting Road, would offer about 800 parking spaces in an attempt to alleviate congestion in the Square area...
...archives, including copies of The First Circle, were hidden. "I was so depressed," he writes about learning of his exposure, "that I contemplated suicide, for the first and, I hope, the last time in my life." After that raid, Solzhenitsyn began microfilming all his work and arranging for its underground transmission abroad for safekeeping...
Gold Buttons. "Simplicity" and "innocence" were Pepys' dominant qualities, counters Ollard, the arch defender, while allying himself to another camp of Pepys interpreters, the 20th century aesthetes. For them, the true Pepys was a sort of underground artist, living in the silence, exile and cunning of his diary. Certainly Pepys was an avid collector of fine-bound volumes, which he arranged according to their height rather than subject matter, and he had a portrait of himself painted with a scrap of musical score in one hand. There is something more than a little bogus about Pepys the aesthete...