Word: poeticizing
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McGuane is rhapsodic in his meticulous, almost poetic description of the inspiration the ocean offers Skelton--seascapes of rocky bottom and tide-waved weeds; schools of fish gliding instinctively past each other without colliding; the expert crafting from scratch of Tom's skiff; the art of guiding that provides a framework within which Skelton makes his last ditch attempt to integrate his psyche with the natural world. Guiding is a one-man job, but Hemingway style requires full exertion of Skelton's intellect, intuition and physical strength in mastering fishing equipment and tides, navigating channels and neighboring keys, and sniffing...
Growing old gracefully is a poetic ideal, but in real life, according to recent studies in Chicago, people are more likely to survive into a ripe old age if they are grouchy and pugnacious. Passive senior citizens seem to lack the moxie necessary to deal with all the natural shocks that aging flesh is heir...
...shows Iran happily progressing toward the millennium: ancient columns mingling with oil derricks, children learning to read, Oriental rugs, exotic birds and cheerful workers. Farah diplomatically praised the portrait, "not because of the resemblance, but because I have an air both aware and serene ... and also because of the poetic background, modern and social, just as I had hoped...
...GUESS Vladimir Mayakovsky probably had something on the ball. Born in 1893, he joined the Bolsheviks at the age of 14, became a Futurist poet, and then the brightest star in the Soviet poetic firmament for a decade or so after 1917. He evidently had mixed feelings about this. "I'm fed to the teeth with agit-prop," he remarked in a poem published about three weeks before his suicide in 1930. More important, he apparently had his doubts about whether the Soviet state was still worth writing agit-prop about. After his suicide Stalin announced he was the greatest...
...literary Lowry was founded on poetic rather than narrative talents. He was heavily influenced by the complex psychological lyricism of Conrad Aiken. Poet Aiken was to become Lowry's friend, surrogate father and even baby sitter. At one stage Lowry's father, worried about his son's disorderly ways, hired Aiken at $100 a month to keep an eye on Malcolm...