Word: ushant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into a sudden squall. Then the ship's engines inexplicably quit, leaving it to drift in 60-m.p.h. gusts; the 30-man crew dropped two anchors but the anchor chains snapped. So the voyage covered only about 35 miles, ending against the rocks of the island of Ushant. There the tanker rests, sinking slowly as water seeps in through gashes torn in her hull by the rocks. Last week the Onassis group began final attempts to refloat the tanker; if they fail the ship will be declared a total loss...
...Aiken began publishing poems in 1914. Influenced by both Sigmund Freud and Harvard Philosopher George Santayana, Aiken searched in his poetry and prose for musical and psychological truth -an effort resulting in rich mental atmospheres but lacking in drama and force. Best known for his Selected Poems, for Ushant, a third-person autobiography, and for a number of short stories, notably Silent Snow, Secret Snow, Aiken published more than 50 books of poetry, fiction and essays during his 57-year literary career. His final poetic work, Thee, published in 1971, summarized his personal philosophy "that there are no final solutions...