Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FATHER LONERGAN is known for dense, often excruciatingly abstruse prose. Yet somehow he can turn a masterly phrase when the right insight inspires him and on occasion be not only aphoristic but almost poetic. A sampling, beginning with a passage from the preface to Insight that seems prophetic in describing some of the ailments of contemporary society...
Brief but Crucial. Part of the book's impact comes from a poetic empathy that the author feels for the objects and forces that confront his men. Fearful of a rapids just ahead, Gentry imagines: "We would spin broadside and the whole river and all the mountains it came from would fall on us, would pour into the canoe, ton after ton, never ending." Part of the book's charm comes from Dickey's knowledge and love of the outdoors, of guitar playing, of archery. Dickey also manages an overwhelmingly graphic description of a man shot through...
AMERICA failed the chances Cowan gave it. The liberal credo on which he was nurtured (described with almost poetic beauty in a passage about his childhood fantasies of stalwartly crushing Joe McCarthyism) went so deep that it inhibited his anger for years. He treats his involvement with the Civil Rights movement and the Peace Corps in Ecuador so thoroughly, tracing his individual frustration back to the power source that fundamentally opposes meaningful change, as to argue convincingly that the chance-giving approach must fail. The implications for those younger than Cowan bring to mind George Santayana's maxim that people...
...transformation of the television medium into a literary art form. In his four and a half years of sports?ating on CRS, he has combined a journalistic flair with his dramatic background to emerge with legendary "wrap-ups" of sports information, delivered in a style of elevated pr??, almost poetic in their rhythm...
...lectures he is asked to deliver must concern "poetry, the term being interpreted in the broadest sense to include...all poetic expression in language, music or the fine arts...