Word: metaphor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conception of human affairs. "I like to think of civilization as a parade," he observes, making the point that mass destiny is more important than the fate of the individual. Somewhere else among the Dean's motor-minded messages upon Good & Evil there occurs the traffic-signal metaphor that gives the work its title...
...peace proposals, but there was no public indication that burly Leader Lewis was any more ready than before to discuss compromise of his demand for A. F. of L.'s complete surrender on the issue of industrial unionism. Last week the C. I. O. Union News, making a metaphor from the latest method of industrial protest, described the A. F. of L. convention as a "sitdown against Labor...
...mixture of metaphor is intended to indicate that the Guild's most recent offspring is a problem child who shows an upsetting complexity of behavior. Perhaps because he felt that Miss Claire is in danger of becoming stereotyped, Mr. Behrman has apparently sought to make his work more than the simple amusing bubble it ought to be. Instead of concentrating, as is customary, upon Miss Claire's emotional life, he has built a play of many characters and even more numerous problems. He has gathered, into a sunlit Maine summer palace, three generations of the Wyler family with their variegated...
...scholar. A sad-eyed, firm-jawed little man with shaved skull and bedraggled mustache, Wu is supposed to be a descendant of one of Confucius' favorite pupils. At ten he could recite from the Chinese classics interminably and with feeling. His own poetry shows a gift for direct metaphor unusual in an Oriental. He had, moreover, a competent grasp of military strategy; he was incorruptible, brave and patriotic; his followers were proud to be called Wu mi ("infatuated with Wu"). He liked strong wine, singing and gold plate. His serious faults were his confidence that he was a greater...
...under their influence, so potent also in the case of Mr. T. S. Eliot or Mr. Archibald MacLeish. Mr. Lehmann does not 'surprise' the reader by quick transitions from the grave to the trivial; he builds a poem often, in the manner of (say) Carew, on a single metaphor, of which the following is the best example...