Word: metaphorical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shifting metaphor, James adopted the language of the hydraulic engineer in his discussion of consciousness. He decried the practice of chopping consciousness into supposed "single ideas" with which the investigator really had no immediate acquaintance. Chains, trains, or other compounding of bits seemed inadequate as models. Consciousness is nothing jointed, he argued; it flows. Thus he preferred such metaphors as "river" or "stream...
...there is any mystery in the work of Claes Oldenburg, 34, the son of a former Swedish consul general, it is in his extraordinary explanations for doing what he does. He calls his giant Floorburger a "metaphor of the human body" because its skin feels a bit like flesh and it is an object that only a human being would create. "I create forms from a living situation: a hamburger is something a living form would create...
...that moves any study of the American mind, is this: that America was begun on purpose, that it began deliberately, for a reason. This sense of mission, first religious, then political, has persisted from the beginning. Perry Miller has defined the mission for colonial New England in his rich metaphor of an errand into the wilderness. Seeing a play on the word "errand," he has explained how the first Puritan settlers came to America running one sort of errand, for a higher power--the Puritan Church in England--and how they ended the seventeenth century running, necessarily, an errand that...
...poems by Byrd appear in the magazine. In the first, which is untitled, he says, "Man attempts too many explanations." The line suggests the proper way to approach the poem: it should be felt. The basis of the poem is experience, not contrived metaphor; Byrd writes simply but powerfully...
...abandoned child who became successively a thief, a prostitute, a convict, and the most ferociously brilliant poet now at work in the French theater of the absurd. In The Balcony, a drama that resembles both a burlesque show and a Black Mass. Genet expounds his fantasies in a monstrous metaphor: the world is a vast brothel operated by an infernal, supernal, eternal Madam who sells her customers illusions in return for the surrender of their masculinity...