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With her blonde good looks and long legs (which she considered her best feature) Sylvia was popular, but none of the dates measured up. She wanted a "colossus." She thought such a man might be found in England and applied for a Fulbright grant ("If only I get accepted at Cambridge! My whole life would explode in a rainbow...
...were they able to escape their sense of failure." All the experts agree that an assault on the President gives such a person the feeling of identity he has lacked and a sense of importance akin to that of the man he kills. The one who pulls down the Colossus of Rhodes will always go down in history, John Wilkes Booth is said to have told a friend. And today, he or she can achieve instant recognition. Says University of New Hampshire Professor Stuart Palmer: "You can become a TV star or an assassin," adding that for some people, "becoming...
...interview is quite revealing and its appearance on this record is particularly appropriate, because in it Plath talks about the importance of reading poetry, and particularly her recent poetry, aloud. "I have found myself having to read these poems aloud to myself," she tells Orr. "My first book, The Colossus, I can't read any of the poems aloud now. I didn't write them to be read aloud. In fact, they quite privately bore me." Later, Plath seems to be intrigued by the idea of oral poetry...
Guided largely by intuition, Founder Revson built Revlon, of which he was chairman for 44 years, into a cosmetics colossus whose name and some 4,000 products are known around the world, and are popular with women from the mass of Walgreens on up to the class of Saks Fifth Avenue. Long before Revson died of cancer last week at 68, Revlon had become the largest U.S. over-the-counter retailer (1974 sales: $606 million) of lipstick, nail polish and potions that women use to make themselves beautiful...
Harvard Stadium is the colossus of the University's athletic facilities. Built around the turn of the century, the Stadium has a capacity of around...