Word: melvillean
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Most wait quietly, unsure of what to expect. Ginsberg is reading his epic poem of outrage and lament to commemorate the 25th anniversary of its publication. Media announcements have recalled the public theatrics of the poet, an ostentatious non-comformist, a self-described "Hebraic Melvillean bardic breath." He drew together the strident Beat Generation of the 1950s, led the flower children of the 1960s into Eastern religions, hymned the antinuclear movement of the 1970s. Throughout, he sustained his vernacular yet visionary voice-marked, said one admiring fellow poet, by a "note of hysteria that hit the taste of the young...
...problems in working in the mammal department on the fifth floor of the Museum of Comparative Zoology is the whale supports, the great iron turnbuckles that disappear with Melvillean inscrutability into the ceiling and are anchored somewhere high up in the attic. Two floors below, the skeletons of the leviathans are stretched out for the length of the exhibit room in static mimicry of their aquatic postures. The problem with the whale supports, says M. Edith Rutzmoser, who works out of the mammal department as curatorial associate, is that they get in the way when you're trying to move...
...after the tragedies, had chosen to write not The Tempest but Charley's Aunt. After 18 novels variously described as entertainments, authentic modern tragedies or murky theological melodramas, Graham Greene has at last put himself onstage in a comic masterpiece. Greene's aunt has a bit more Melvillean whalebone in her corsetry than Charley's. She belongs among those female siblings of steel shaped by P. G. Wodehouse who all seem to be named Agatha...