Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unusual snows in South Carolina and Georgia last winter. A particularly late frost in California this March. The worst flood in the Mississippi basin since 1937. Abroad, the worst drought in India in 20 years. A landscape of dehydrated livestock carcasses dotting the dry beds of rivers in Africa. An absence of monsoons that ruined the rice crop in Southeast Asia...
California's crops were severely damaged by a sequence of heavy rain last autumn, devastating cold last winter and late frost this spring. So far this year, shipments of onions, tomatoes and plums are down at least 50%; potatoes are down 33%, and lettuce 25%. With supplies short, prices paid to growers have soared in the past year: from $3 to $8 for a hundredweight of potatoes, and from $1.35 to $7 for 24 heads of lettuce...
Many years and seven volumes later, both the poems and the poetess have changed. Then, the poetry was clearly based on the Cambridge undergraduate experience, intertwined with memories of childhood and adolescence, heavily under the influence of Yeats and Robert Frost, smelling of the New England environment, and with a narrative voice often speaking in the first person masculine. Now the poetry is fully mature, redolent of intense joys and great suffering, aflame with radical and sexual politics, crying the lessons of a militant feminism. Now the poetess, still neatly and modestly dressed but in blue-jeans, has grown through...
STEPHEN T. FROST...
...back rider, each trying to betray the other. The film (whose original Swedish title means "The Clown's Evening") is Bergman's first masterpiece. Many people interpret it as being totally pessimistic, but its ending (the pair walking in silence alongside the caravan) and the memories of the clown, Frost (in the flashback near the beginning and when Frost relates a dream at the end) point to the life-giving power of resignation and companionship...