Word: webs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shape of my sensations." Sutherland's sensations when he faces nature are far from rhapsodic. He is like a perverse Picasso run riot in a vegetable patch: he draws polyps plopping limply atop earthen walls, a skull looking as if it were a spider's web peering from a lattice of green leaves. Once he caught a huge toad, put it in a jar and made 50 drawings of it. "He was a very bad sitter," said Sutherland. "He turned his back on me all the time...
AFTER THE FALL. Making his actors enter and exit like vagrant thoughts of memory, Playwright Arthur Miller tangles them in the web of man's hurt and guilt...
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in its tissue. It is the very atmosphere of the mind; and when that mind is imaginative--much more when it happens to be that of a man of genius--it takes to itself the faintest hints of life, it converts the very pulses of the air into revelations...
...with the help of diaries and a somewhat perfervid dramatic style, Paul Wellman, a novelist and historian of the West, has produced a lively account of a criminal empire which "exerted an influence of bale and woe for a full generation and held all of interior America in a web of terror...
Taken alone, deceptively simple poems like this seem to lack substance. But like the threads of a spider web, a garland of such verse woven together creates a captivating world. Its charm, perhaps, is that it seems oldfashioned. Ransom's courtly poetic rhetoric seems antique to the ear of an age that banned charm and rhetoric from poetry in order to come to grips with life. Newcomers wandering in Ransom's poetic kingdom are likely to bark a shin on such arch words as "pernoctated," or be mildly astonished at the poet's unfashionable fondness for bucolic...