Word: poeticize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This extraordinarily compressed passage, appearing early in the novel, sets the tone for much that follows. Michaels not only creates an imaginary poet, she also examines the ways in which a poetic imagination can arise out of horror. That Jakob survives at all is a miracle. After days of hiding, he is finally driven by hunger to risk his fate by approaching a stranger. "I screamed into the silence the only phrase I knew in more than one language, I screamed it in Polish and German and Yiddish, thumping my fists on my own chest: dirty Jew, dirty Jew, dirty...
...future. They'll change out of necessity, and they'll change because people are tired of corporations always getting their way. Call it a revolution if you must, but don't be too alarmed; it's still a long way off. Reparations will be made, and the era of poetic justice will begin, echoing the Inferno of Dante...
...where shall the rest of us find ourselves? It is doubtful that even the greatest pains of poetic justice will deter the profit-starved college students from seeking a position that permits the immediate destruction of thousands of lives with a single decision. The allure of money, power and corporate expense accounts attract the ambitious and well-educated like sharks to a shipwreck. Rest assured that for every job you ever take, dozens of your classmates are vying for the opportunity to downsize you. Or maybe you will be the one pruning the workforce, sending a former teammate or study...
Smith is as meticulous with photography as his Renaissance predecessors were with painting: In the age of computer enhancement and image manipulation, he still does everything by hand. As a result, no photograph can be exactly reproduced--a uniqueness that lends a certain poetic beauty to each work. Every image seems to capture a fleeting image, the enchanting mood which lasts for a fraction of a second and then is gone forever...
...serious disappointment of the show was its length: the four skits add up to barely an hour's worth of entertainment. The original All in the Timing consisted of six one-act comedies. McCarter and Stein showed that they could transfer Ives's pointed and poetic wit to the stage. But they should have attempted to present more skits from the collection. Fortunately, the four skits they chose provided a well-acted and entertaining exercise for the mind...