Word: subterranean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every weekday morning a Cautions Upperclassman dives underground, grabs a train for Central Square, and then immediately turns around and grabs another one back. Despite his actions, his motives are simple, and such a circuitous route accomplishes a definite purpose. For with the present acute side-street congestion, the subterranean gambit is the safest way to cross Massachusetts Avenue and still keep a Bursar's Card intact. By entering the kiosk opposite Hayes Bickford and emerging in the shadow of Lehman Hall the Cautions Upperclassman neatly sidesteps all traffic, and loses no shoelaces in the bargain. A problem any time...
...since Thomas Wolfe died, and in that decade his reputation with the critics has steadily declined, while his popularity with the public has increased. His admirers see Wolfe as a rock-solid, almost primitive spokesman of the American people, whose novels are a grandiose articulation of their own vague, subterranean but insistent attitudes towards the puzzles of human life, and whose writing absorbed the textures, aromas, frustrations, daydreams and tragedies of America with an amplitude unequaled by any writer since Whitman...
...didn't find roast beef on your tray yesterday, don't talk about high prices, don't mumble about the lack of meat, but take your troubles to a subterranean chamber under Eliot House where Miss Frances Hinckley, beside two huge ovens, plots College menus three weeks in advance...
Moody, Mad Thing. Jack Paar lives in an improbable little world of satire filled with musclebound lady wrestlers, bombproof subterranean love nests and amorous girl gym teachers. Political commentators in Paar scripts have great difficulty "predicting" that Friday will follow Thursday; small boys expect to be rewarded with refrigerators when they answer questions in history class. Because U.S. institutions are Paar's target, a Paar grammar school administration drums up business with radio commercials ("Children! Have you tried the seventh grade...
Small comfort to Wigglesworth occupants is the information that digging and demolition of surrounding earth, trees, sidewalks, and gates will continue throughout the summer. Construction plans call for four levels of subterranean stacks and reading rooms, necessitating the digging of a 34-foot excavation before actual building begins...