Word: metaphorical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first full-length motion picture, Yale film kingpin Robert Edlestein takes firm hold on a familiar visual metaphor, and by applying a vigorous half-twist makes it fresh, contemporary, and personal. The paired figures of the Fair Maiden and the Dark Lady, representing the constructive and destructive principles of sexuality, are as old as American storytelling. In Love and Death in the American Novel, Leslie Fiedler has traced them through historical American fiction, but to a movie audience they are especially familiar as the conventional alternatives offered to the male protagonists of countless Hollywood features. In Sally's Hounds, Edlestein...
Jarrell had to be brave to even attempt a poem so simple as this. There is no structured poetic theory like Stevens', between him and his subject, no fluffy metaphor to make the horror manageable, no "T. S. Eliotscotch-tape," as one of his memorialists says, to put the shattered lost world together again. And this is where Jarrell parts company with most of his contemporaries...
...second Charles Eliot Norton Lecture by Jorge Luis Borges, originally scheduled for tonight, will be held instead at 8:30 p.m. Thursday night in Sanders Theatre. Borges will speak on "The Metaphor...
...hear him saying, we know what words are. They describe things. But why shovel them into the ditch of what each one means, into the hoary groove of usage and association. Let the words exist as white ladders covered with water. Why be content with little sparks from occasional metaphor and simile when there is a bonfire to be built of twisted images and grammar. Dylan has applied the lessons of LSD, light shows and electronic music to smash the old patterns of reaction set by the old rules...
Stoppard has chosen to use Hamlet as a metaphor for existence. Through his fable he marches good Rosencrantz and gentle Guildenstern blindfolded. They know little of their roles and less of themselves. In fear and trembling, they jolly their way to their doom. Every man does the same, Stoppard implies, for no man can divine the purpose of existence except to know that life is uncertain and death is sure...