Word: craning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poet Hart Crane was one of 16 signers of a Proclamation appearing in transition (experimentalist Paris quarterly), June 1929. Said the Proclamation: "We hereby declare that: (1) The revolution in the English language is an accomplished fact. . . . (12) The plain reader be damned." Hart Crane is noted among left-wing litterateurs for his "mighty line," is credited with writing the mightiest line now extant. In this book, a series of poems on the U. S., mighty lines abound. Examples...
...room, a travelling crane was busily in action, its massive hook swinging in long even arcs as the operator, perched in a box-like contraption 40 feet above the floor, controlled the apparatus with a small hand switch...
According to an operator working in the central car of the crane, there is 3000 tons of metal to be removed from the building, an amount which is worth $60,000. The metal taken from the plant is sent partly to Pittsburg and partly to France, under a contract with the French that calls for a million tons of metal. In demolishing the massive power plant machines, weighing 500 tons each, the cylinders are removed first, being toppled over by the crane after the bolts have been burnt away. Once during the operation, a piece weighing 22 tons had been...
Only one of Author Crane's poems has the quality of memorability...
...Stephen Crane, 14th child of a Methodist pastor, was born in Newark. N. J.. in 1871, became a newspaperman at an early age. His first novel, Maggie, a Girl of the Streets, was printed at his own expense, under a pseudonym; it fell flat. His second, The Red Badge of Courage, brought him jobs as war correspondent although until then he had never seen a battle. He served in a Cuban filibustering expedition, the Greco-Turkish War; Spanish-American War. The last few years of his life he lived in England, was a great & good friend of the late...