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Advertisement from 1958 for The Colossus of New York and co-feature, The Space Children. Jeremy's father, noted brain surgeon William Spensser (Otto Kruger), is distressed that his son's gifts will be denied to mankind. He devises a plan to give Jeremy's mind another chance to benefit humanity by transplanting the brain (which he has revived ...
Dr. Charles A. Forbin is the chief designer of a secret project, "Colossus", an advanced supercomputer built to control the United States and Allied nuclear weapon systems. . Located deep within the Rocky Mountains in the United States, and powered by its own nuclear reactor and radioactive moat making access impossible, Colossus is impervious to any att
The Fall of Colossus is a 1974 science fiction novel written by the British author Dennis Feltham Jones (writing as D. F. Jones). [1] This is the second volume in "The Colossus Trilogy" and a sequel to Jones' 1966 novel Colossus. [2] The trilogy concludes in 1977's Colossus and the Crab.
The New York Timeseditorial page warned, “It is especially frightening to see the administration use the debates over the prisoners at Guantánamo Bay and domestic spying to mount a new offensive against the courts.”3 July 31: “A SLIP OF THE PEN.” U.S. lawyers issued a state-ment expressing alarm at the way the president was overusing
As Colossus assumes control, Blake is the leader of CPO efforts to stop the computer. Angela – Prof. Forbin's secretary. The President of the United States of North America – He is an anonymous, overweight, short man of about 50 years of age. He dismisses Forbin's concerns about Colossus, and too late recognizes the threat of Colossus.
The Colossus of New York is a 2003 book about the history of New York City by American writer Colson Whitehead. [ 1 ] The subtitle of the book reads "A City in 13 Parts."
"The New Colossus" is a sonnet by American poet Emma Lazarus (1849–1887). She wrote the poem in 1883 to raise money for the construction of a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty ( Liberty Enlightening the World ). [ 2 ]
The Colossus of Maroussi is an impressionist travelogue by American writer Henry Miller that was first published in 1941 by Colt Press of San Francisco. Set in pre-Second World War Greece of 1939, it is ostensibly an exploration of the "Colossus" of the title, George Katsimbalis, a poet and raconteur. The work is frequently heralded as Miller's ...