Many more pieces, however, are clear responses to an even more immediate and colossal crisis, World War II.
How did so many talented and informed people in the high ranks of savvy financial institutions become active, collective participants in the colossal crisis now roiling the U.S. financial markets?
And we have to act fast, because otherwise we're just going to have more extremists to deal with, along with an enraged Pakistani government that has no ability to fix its own socioeconomic strife, and a colossal crisis on our hands.
"Europe's efforts to address this colossal refugee crisis have been lamentable," said Keith Vaz, the Labour MP who chairs the home affairs committee, after a year-long investigation.
In a field that included diminutive actor Gary Coleman, former baseball commissioner Pete Ueberroth, publisher Larry Flynt, and political pundit Arianna Huffington, former bodybuilder and action star Arnold Schwarzenegger emerged as the winner, inheriting the state's colossal budget crisis.
It is more than likely that India will have a colossal humanitarian crisis on its hands in the not too distant future, with Bangladeshis crossing the border into West Bengal on a scale that will make 1971 appear puny.
Obama's electoral triumph of 2008 coincided with the most colossal economic crisis since the Great Depression (and far more global in scope); to add to his troubles, two wars were under way on difficult terrain in far away Islamic lands.
Meanwhile, a colossal economic crisis lurks around the corner.
Until the Middle East's colossal water crisis is alleviated, militant and extremist groups may continue to exploit the shortage to gain power, loyalty, and state-like legitimacy.
A colossal, uncontainable crisis of immigration is at hand, and there couldn't be a more opportune time to tackle the issue than right now.
It's not surprising that employers would first rely on temporary hires as they regained their footing after a colossal financial crisis.
