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Word: underground (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bootlegging facts in the diplomatic pouch of fiction, Sinyavsky demonstrates the range of his virtuosity and literary cunning by echoing some Russian masters: Gogol of the satiric Dead Souls, Dostoyevsky of the subversive Notes from Underground, Turgenev of the pastoral Fathers and Sons, Nabokov of the evocative Speak, Memory. It is a special tradition, one in which publish or perish could have just as easily meant publish and perish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notes From The Underground | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

...freight containers, which are almost never inspected. That explains, in part, why U.S. officials are unable to locate fully 80% of all the bills printed by the Treasury. Once overseas, the cash is easy to funnel into black markets, especially in unstable economies where the dollar is the favored underground currency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Torrent of Dirty Dollars | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

...Cabot House Underground Theater...

Author: By Kelly A. Matthews, | Title: Romantic Movement? | 12/15/1989 | See Source »

...Pope did offer his endorsement of perestroika, all the while pressing home his "expectation" that Ukrainian Catholics would be allowed to exercise their faith fully and openly. The Ukrainian Church, which follows the Eastern liturgy but claims the Pope as its spiritual leader, was banned and driven underground by Stalin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West: Turning Visions Into Reality | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...within the Soviet Union concerns the 4 million or so Catholics in the western Ukraine, whose plight is a key agenda item in this week's talks between Gorbachev and the Pope. Friendlier contacts, and a papal visit to the U.S.S.R., cannot occur unless this, the world's largest underground religious community, is restored. Under Stalin, all Ukrainian Catholic bishops were imprisoned and a fraudulent 1946 synod dissolved their jurisdictions, handing over 4,100 churches to Russian Orthodoxy. The majority of the Catholic priests rejected the takeover and either were arrested or went into hiding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Cross Meets Kremlin: Gorbachev and Pope John Paul II | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

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