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Crossing the Water is a collection of poems written in between her first publication Colossus (1960) and her posthumous collection Ariel (1966). The poems are readable, clean, and expert; they deal with her obsessions. Like Monet's cathedral she insists in reviewing each in all lights, under all conditions: the death of her father, her widowed mother, her husband indistinguishable from her father, her suicides, the accidents, the hospitals. She uses her standard lynch pins sparingly and precisely: poppies, mouths, Jews, Germans, the black boot, reptiles, the small animal, the color red, and fire...
Both men would like to see multilateral agencies lift some of the financial burden from the sweating shoulders of the American colossus. However, the distasteful political system they posit will repel most nations. Smithies' plan takes that into account. "The most suitable multinational arrangement would be a consortium (including) the U.S., Japan, Australia, Thailand, New Zealand, Korea and the Philippines," he writes. "But the club should not be exclusive. Canada, for instance, should be included...
...Geneva's leafy Ariana park, the Swiss government is building a $15 million expansion of the Palais des Nations, the handsome colossus that was the tomb of the League of Nations and now serves as the United Nations' European headquarters. This activity on the part of the Swiss has raised once again an interesting question: Should the U.N. make Geneva or some other city its worldwide headquarters to escape from the grime and crime of Manhattan...
AMERICA'S steel industry long projected an image of an imperious colossus balancing the rest of the economy on its brawny shoulders. It was the basic industry, pouring out the prime ingredient for countless products from can openers to skyscrapers. Steelmakers' decisions on prices were often handed down like baronial decrees, infuriating customers and successive U.S. Presidents. Today the steel industry is a troubled giant, no longer smugly certain of its stellar role. Its management has lagged in adapting new technology to help curb flyaway costs and prices. Competitors from abroad and from other industries, including plastics...
...easily be the first of a string of National Basketball Association titles. Like the old New York Yankees, they so humbled their opposition that they robbed the championship of much of its interest. With 7-ft. 2-in. Buck Center Lew Alcindor dominating the last game like a keyhole colossus, Milwaukee beat the Baltimore Bullets 118-106 to sweep the finals in four straight games. It was one of the most lopsided final play-offs in N.B.A. record books...