Word: metaphors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...graduates in June, the last organized group of undergraduates which participated in the Harvard strike of 1969 will have left the University. And so ephemeral are the politics of Harvard's undergraduate student body--and so great the self-willed forgetfulness of the larger institution--that the metaphor of the last veteran, outlandish as it seems, is not totally inapt. When we leave, the bonds and rifts which the strike set up between us will vanish, and the last few remnants of a collective mind which at odd moments during that battle seemed fused into one inchoate but unanimous rage...
...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...
Were it not for the skill with which Hawkes handles his language, the presence of so many potentially heavy-handed symbols would be intolerable. If the tapestry metaphor provides a unifying principle, the images betray an artificial sense of indeterminacy: church icons, an eagle, the color orange, the children, a shepherdess and a shepherd, the fortress and the arbor, all these comprise a fabric of pretentious love and meaningless hatred. On a note of tragedy the tapestry grows sordid, but Cyril is so consistently enervated even the tragic sensation becomes a cheat...
...guns in their hands, very cautious, very intent: but most simply milling in the streets, and always several "tramping" on any given road at any given time. This seeming paradox of soldiers who never seem to be on duty (it is, in fact, a misleading impression), is a fitting metaphor for the compromise which Israel attempts to make between life-styles of war and peace: to live like the city-state of Athens, culturally, economically, open and expanding, but to be prepared at all times to become a fortress-state, a Sparta, and to fight to the end. The ubiquity...
...veiled explanation of the truth. The transformation from fact to myth is endlessly fascinating. The battle of Achilles and Hector, for example, is symbolic, but there was a Trojan War in which great heroes fought. The psychological duel between Faust and the Devil is a philosophical and psychological metaphor, but Georg Faust, a German magician who was born about 1480, did live and did make claims to superhuman power, including the ability to restore the lost works of Plato and Aristotle and to repeat the miracles of Christ. Yet it was not until poets like Christopher Marlowe and Goethe took...