Word: subterranean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Forest. Under the Volcano was rejected by twelve New York publishers before it finally appeared in 1947. On the surface, it tells the story of Geoffrey Firmin, an alcoholic and almost derelict British consul in a town strongly resembling Cuernavaca, where Lowry himself lived for two years. However, its subterranean reputation continued to grow until it is now taught in college courses on the modern novel...
Below its roofs, Sydney's opera house shelters spaces to inspire a cultural bonanza. Its two large halls will seat 2,800 and 1,100 respectively. The complex also contains a 300-seat chamber-music room, a 400-seat subterranean experimental theater, and a restaurant that can serve 250 people. There are 19 rehearsal rooms, including one large enough to hold an entire 120-man symphony orchestra. "Big shapes hold no fear for me," says Utzon, whose father was a naval architect...
...Folk rock owes its origins to Bob Dylan, 24, folk music's most celebrated contemporary composer. Much to the despair of the folk purists, Dylan first bridged the gap between folk and rock six months ago by adding a thumping big beat to the elliptical verses of his Subterranean Homesick Blues. He followed with his biggest folk-rock hit, Like a Rolling Stone, and the big-beat groups were quick to latch on to his songs, most notably It Ain't Me, Babe by the Turtles and Mr. Tambourine Man by the Byrds. Booed during a performance...
...posture was partially prompted by Lyndon Johnson's America the Beautiful campaign, but more important, it reflected recent technological developments that had made subterranean wiring economically feasible. In the past, power companies could bury the wires but not the large, boxlike transformers, which were almost as offensive as the old wires. Developers balked not only at the cost but also at the fact that every sixth house had to have a transformer, and the lot with the transformer on it was always hard to sell, even at a reduced price...
Technology has a way of re-enacting poetry. West Germany is currently considering a network of Autobahnen im Dunkeln, or highways in the dark: huge subterranean pipelines that will carry industrial waste and scrap to the coast, dump them into the ocean and form new land. "Under green fields, under our feet," writes an awed British journalist, "the thick current of Germany's yesterday will creep endlessly down to the sea." The scheme is symbolic of contemporary Germany; for 20 years, its people have sought to eliminate the rubbish of their past and build anew...