Word: metaphors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think Mailer's subsequent career as far as I've kept up with it is a kind of self-resurrection to be admired. I do admire--not without reservation--Armies of the Night: there's a shrillness, and a willingness to accept your personal experience as an artist as metaphor for national experience...
...serious nationwide effort to get women involved full time in politics. Headquartered in Washington, the caucus has established branches in 46 states and has been holding well-attended regional workshops in political techniques. Its motto: "Women! Make policy not coffee." Or, to reverse a man's metaphor: if you can stand the heat, get out of the kitchen...
...Reason, a time when everything made sense. Even in the darkest times, some men have embraced as an ideal Plato's famous symbol of Reason: the charioteer masterfully reigning in his two horses, passion and will. But Western civilization has too often made of Plato's metaphor a sort of public memorial, something that men absently tip their hats to on history's Sunday afternoons. Even a man of reason like Santayana was forced to acknowledge man's habitual flight from its rule with his cover phrase for history: "normal madness...
Even Swift's "excremental vision" has its counterpart in Oldenburg. Any object - from a typewriter eraser to a toothpaste tube, from an ice bag to an electric plug - can be seized and turned into a visible metaphor of the body's shapes and functions...
Even while it was going on, the Long March lay on the edge of myth. No one has done much to reduce its mythic content. In her own book called The Long March, Simone de Beauvoir made it an elaborate Gallic metaphor for revolution, while André Malraux (who got Mao to tell him about it in 1965) used it, in his non-biography An-timemoires, mostly as an excuse for some very elegant prose. Dick Wilson, an editor of the Singapore Straits Times, has modestly tried to assemble a straightforward account based on Chinese sources, scrupulously avoiding conjecture...