Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poetic discipline which controlled that emotion. Nothing highlights the situation more clearly than the early works of Paul Klee. The etchings Head of Menace and Virgin in a Tree are works of quality and excellent draughtsmanship, yet their overbearing concern for the histrionics of their subject matter works against them. Moreover, the later Klees in the exhibit avoid histrionics, as their subject matter is relegated to a whimsical leitmotif, subordinated to the wholly poetic studies in color and shape. This latter group incidentally has long represented Klee in exhibitions of the so-called French school. They are works whose universal...
...limitations, Packard has written a fascinating book which raises some valid moral questions. His chapter headings--"The Built-In Seual Overtone,"--"Back to the Breast, and Beyond," Class and Caste in the Sales-room," "Selling Symbols to Upward Strivers," and "The Packaged Soul" indicate the nature of his subject matter. His description of the techniques used to sell Mrs. Middle Majority, "the darling of the advertiser," and those used to revive the cigarette holder, instant coffee, tea, margarine, and prune industries are intensely interesting...
Contrasting views of metaphor as "a verbal matter" and as "an act of mind" were presented yesterday by Marshall Cohen, Junior Fellow in Philosophy, in the first of six Lowell Institute lectures on "The Meaning of Metaphor." Cohen went on to discuss the semantical properties of metaphor...
...visiting them. Soon afterwards he discovered alcohol, took to it with the same enthusiasm. By the time he settled into his job as a Paris civil servant in 1864, while writing poetry on the side, Verlaine had achieved an odd condition: he embraced everything life had to offer so matter-of-factly that his intellectual friends found him rather bourgeois...
Both stories, as with so much undergraduate, or for that matter graduate (i.e., New Yorker) writing today, depend heavily on understatement, although Nash's understatement, paradoxically, is often prolix. The supreme achievement, however, is Arthur Freeman's poem "Whew": in a satire of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl", he has managed to get the muse of the Beat Generation for once to understate herself. This is no mean accomplishment...