Word: metaphor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...makes small noise in thousands' of lines, though this reviewer ought to say, in fairness to Mr. Lehmann, that he has not counted them. A young man whom the Hogarth Press has published before, Mr. Lehmann is the English equivalent of Paul Engle. One must not be misunderstood; the metaphor is not mathematically accurate, for there are dissimilarities, but the total effect of both on the reader is the same. That is, they are young poets more lyrical than philosophical, though Mr. Lehmann is trying to feel his way toward a point of view...
...alert Reader Robbins, credit for neat metaphor-mixing, equal to TIMES inept: "Last week . . . they rang their curtain up again and set out on a new tack...
...Irishman, and therefore a wit, Mr. Leslie manages to compress many an event into a memorable epigram, and he can describe many a contemporary personage with the economy natural to metaphor. The immorality that accompanied night-clubs is chronicled wittily in this adaptation of Holy Writ; a night-club is a place...
Horse Trade. "If one wants to estimate the 'horse trade,' I should say M. Litvinoff has got perhaps a shade the worst of it," declared Muscovite Walter Duranty of the New York Times, "but. on the other hand, to vary the metaphor, Mr. Litvinoff is taking home a pretty fat turkey for Thanksgiving...
...Background of Science" Sir James Jeans accepts wholly the point of view of that fruitful theorist Mark Hyman, who was one of the first contemporary speculators to observe that "science is a metaphor." His preliminary discussion outlines an approach to the subject on this basis, which of course involves the idea that science can never positively identify its picture of the universe with ultimate reality, that even an approximation is not certain. In the main body of the book the author emphasizes this fact while outlining the present position of scientists in regard to relativity, wave mechanics, the theory...