Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...signs and symbols of prosperity are everywhere in Britain, crowding the past, complicating the present. Along rolling Roman roads and winding country lanes, past sleeping Norman churches and whitewashed farms, weekend traffic flows like an invading army. London's raw new office buildings jostle Georgian mansions; a Hilton hotel stares impertinently down onto Buckingham Palace. Bowling alleys and dance halls are packed each night of the week. On city rooftops, TV antennas stand as thick as the English archers at Agincourt...
...strike's cost to the U.S. economy was already estimated at $600 million. The biggest losses were caused by the interruption of commodity shipments. In New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, as sugar refineries ran out of raw sugar, 1,500 workers faced layoffs; on the East Coast refined sugar prices were about to be raised to a 40-yr. high of $10 per 100 lbs. The United Fruit Co., whose great white fleet is a major prop of more than one Latin American economy, managed to get some of its banana ships unloaded under court order. Even so, bananas...
...impact of the strike was felt at the other end too. Puerto Rican industry, cut off from mainland suppliers, began to feel raw-materials shortages. The government of Pakistan waited impatiently for 100,000 tons of surplus U.S. wheat marooned in Gulf Coast ports. In West Germany 78,000 Volkswagen workers got an unwelcome two-day vacation from their assembly lines because the German auto company had 10,000 vehicles stranded in U.S. ports and another 5,300 waiting shipment on piers in Bremen and Hamburg...
Both stories are shadowed by raw autobiographical overtones, which Editor Wilson, as a licensed Freudian critic, delights in. Swinburne, clearly, is the original of the repulsed lover in each book. The girl is his real-life cousin Mary Gordon, whose rejection of the poet was one of the turning points of Swinburne's stunted emotional life. More horrifying is the explanation (in Lesbia Brandon) of the poet's lifelong fondness for being whipped. With subtle, sensual elegance, Swinburne records the slow, tragic perversion of a boy whose admiration for his severe tutor and love for his sister...
...French freighter Mont Blanc, en route from New York to Bordeaux, entered the Halifax roadstead on the morning of Dec. 6. The Mont Blanc was only a 3,000-tonner, but its cargo was something more than mere ammunition. Every usable square foot of cargo space was crammed with raw explosives-200 tons of TNT and 2,300 tons of lyddite, which is more powerful than TNT. On deck, reeking like an Esso station, were 35 tons of benzole in drums stacked three high...