Word: metaphors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when the 155-mm. guns of his artillery unit redden the night "with their long barrels sliding, howling, slashing the black air with smears of flame," the war he lives through becomes altogether real. And what saves Mitchell Goodman's war from being just a long grisly metaphor is that, despite its absence of individual identification, he successfully turns it into drama...
Long-term Recall. The polysyllables of David Susskind, for example, pooled on the courtroom floor, spread to the walls and up to the ceiling, and held the committee spielbound for 210 minutes. In one triple metaphor, he summarized television drama as "celluloid sausage coming down the pike by the ream." Without referring to his own indifferent and unoriginal shows, Susskind estimated that TV as a whole had become "90% travesty, a gigantic comic strip, a huge ho-hum. I tremble for TV as a professional practitioner-as a father-as a citizen...
...more and bigger posters; but like other countries in the Communist bloc, it favored the ponderous style of social realism. The graphic artists, led by the late Tadeusz Trepkowski, insisted on the right to something they called "emotional symbolism"- a highly charged, individual style in which mood and metaphor, as well as words, would carry the message. The artists won, and the poster became the first art form to be liberated from the long night of Stalinism...
...Nephew seems to have been conceived--quite intentionally--in realistic, conventional terms, perhaps in an effort to mirror its platitudinous theme: that people can eventually come to understand one another. Here the uncommunicative world Purdy created in Malcolm, half-seen, half-dreamt, is no longer considered the true metaphor of the human condition...
...issue. Jeremy Johnston's poem, the first of these, is the only excellent piece in the entire issue: Mr. Johnston uses the ballad form, which he handles so adroitly, to express something darker than the fancies of his earlier work. His poem is an extended metaphor, illustrating the sophisticated command of language and ironic use of rhyme which has previously engaged the attention of this reviewer. It is a great pleasure to see someone write about a highly personal subject with detachment, eschewing the offensive gurgle which so many Cambridge writers mistake for the plainsong of genius...