Word: metaphors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mississippi Metaphor. Post-mortem findings indicate that these patients have suffered from what Dr. Goodwin called "showers of clots." Then, switching to an appropriate Mississippi Delta metaphor, he suggested that their effect is to silt up the channels through which the lungs' blood flows. One result, which should help physicians in diagnosing the disorder, is that the concentration of oxygen in the arterial blood goes down with exertion, and so does the level of carbon dioxide...
LEONARD BASKIN-Borgenicht, 1018 Madison Ave. at 78th. Nine new enigmas in bronze and wood from Smith College's bearded sculpture prof. Huge hulking owls, masks of poets and inscrutable birdmen make a cryptic metaphor of death and immortality. Through...
MARATHON '33, by June Havoc, is a faulty but fascinating spectacle that converts a sleazy dance floor into a metaphor for the endurance contest of life. Julie Harris has rarely been so completely right for a role...
...assure the audience that the play does indeed have ulterior meaning however obscure. Hamm's awful dilemma seems to arise partly from his grotesque alienation from nature ("show me the sea!" he asks over and over) and partly from his urge to interpret anything--or everything--in the metaphor of theater. "We are getting on, we are getting on," he tells the audience at intervals; "I am preparing for my last soliloquy." Hamm, in other words, created his macabre world from his own imagination. At the center of the play, literally and figuratively, is his recital of how he came...
...mind, the trip stood as a symbol of both the expanding American frontier and the expanding American consciousness, moving from innocence to experience (a theme that preoccupied him in his fictionalized autobiography, Ushant). But story and symbol never meet, with the result that cascades of imagery and torrents of metaphor are expended on events that have all the inherent drama of a railroad timetable. The train pulls into the town of Galion, Ohio, and Blomberg is jolted awake: "Galion! They had come to Galion; this point in chaos and eternal night was Galion." To Blomberg, the trip signifies that...