Word: oceans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Conquering the Sea." A look at all the strange and wonderful tools being developed for mankind to exploit the ocean depths-with fish ranches, coal and diamond mines, even hydroelectric stations to generate power...
...rose ever so slowly over the lunar Ocean of Storms, the spidery, three-legged newcomer hesitantly extended and flexed its aluminum, accordion-like arm. Then, reassured that the numbing cold of its flight through space had done no harm, it reached down and pressed its steel-tipped claw into the moon's surface, leaving a small dent. Opening its claw, it deliberately gouged a small trench near its feet, curiously watching each movement to determine the nature of the lunar soil. Thus last week Surveyor 3 became the second U.S. spacecraft to achieve a successful lunar soft landing...
Mr.Lowell has broken loose in a sense: I shall try to show this in speaking of Near the Ocean and the earlier books. He has indubitably spawned. But dying? Not a chance...
...Juvenal and Horace efforts in Near the Ocean now show Lowell as the proper envy of every translator in English: he has been able to have his cake and eat it. By this I mean that the relevance of Pasternak's remark, true enough for ordinary translators, has faded with respect of Lowell. Calling the poems "Translations" in the introductory more, and distinguishing among them the various degrees of freedom employed, he has managed to combine close fidelity to the literal text with tonal fidelity in an overwhelming percentage of lines and stanzas. And he has managed this working primarily...
...seven original poems which occupy the first half of Near the Ocean, "Waking Early Sunday Morning" and "Forth of July in Maine," standing first, seem best. But they are all good. The reader of Lowell will recognize much familiar thematic material: New England, the sea, war, religious allusions, classical references, and the effect of technology in the large city. There are quite specific reminiscences (Compare "Forth of July" with "The Mills of the Kavanaughs," for example). Mr.Lowell's mastery of rhyme seems as vigorous as it was twenty years ago in Lord Weary's Castle; indeed, the collections in that...