Word: metaphor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must preach a social gospel, but we must first of all preach the Word . . . To call the wrath of God a metaphor, to smoothly rationalize Hell, to smother the Cross in sentimentality is to play havoc with Christianity; you may have a religion left, but it is not the religion of the New Testament...
...Tillman Merritt, head of the department runs the field efficiently and has quelled all internal disagreement. Administrative work limits his classroom time, but he will teach 152. Model Counterpoint, next year. His classes are partly redeemed from boredom by an outrageous and delightful use of metaphor...
...actors try hard to deal with the strained situation into which Mr. Stewart has thrust them, but they are even further burdened because the author has sought to redeem his efforts by larding the lines with metaphor. The idealist, for example, has "gotten off the merry-go-around" and has "stopped grabbing for the golden ring." By overcoming these difficulties in parts that only border on the convincing, Paul Langton, as the fellow no longer on the carousel, and Ted Newton, the successful businessman, deserve commendation. Also Jocelyn Brando plays well a scene of considerable emotion...
...Under these conditions I favor passage of an "Aid to Indigent Professors Act" which would envisage that rapidly-growing class which has always occupied a position on the subsistence frontier and which has recently (if I may vary the metaphor) been caught squarely in the inflation scissors...
What does it all mean? "Don't try to understand," the princess tells one of her victims, and Cocteau echoes her in an "explanation" that is not much more enlightening than his movie. Orpheus is no allegory, he says, but simply an attempt to touch entertainingly in film metaphor on a scrambled collection of such themes as free will, inspiration and the poet's preoccupation with death. What the movie does with these themes is as elusive and disjointed as a half-remembered dream...