Word: slush
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Funeral of Jan Palach." Though Palach was a Czech who set fire to himself after the Russian invasion of 1968, Shapiro says that his poem is "really about the funeral of America. More than anything I can say it demonstrates my real feelings." Excerpt: "Halfway in mud and slush the microphones picked up/ It was raining on the houses./ It was snowing on the police cars./ . . . And my own mother was brave enough she looked/ And it was all right I was dead." Shapiro adds: "There is a time when 1 may be willing to risk my life...
...Journal is another example of how it hopes to play the roles of both an international forum and a workshop for young local writers. Including samples of the work of Caribbean writer Orlando Patterson, whose "Trinidad" and "Sour Roses" open the section, and "Keep the Faith" and "Melting Slush" by Emory West '72, the poetry section is a well-selected representation of the current directions of black verse...
...easily explained. He was making the snow that fell all over Syracuse this weekend. Even the storm was like Harvard's performance in the tournament. I woke up Thursday morning, looked at those big flakes, and expected a one-foot blizzard. By late that night it had turned to slush...
Hickel pointed out that the proposed line would carry hot oil over frozen soil. Unless designed with extreme care, he insisted, it would act like a hot poker on a cake of ice. After thawing the permafrost, the line might sag into the slush and finally break, spilling oil that could do great harm because it would last for years. Moreover, the line's route would cross earthquake zones. Since each mile of pipe would have a capacity of 100,000 barrels of crude, any break in the line could have disastrous consequences...