Word: metaphor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME'S Christopher Fry cover story is extravagant and outrageous. The praise that is heaped upon the exuberance of the Fry metaphor is all out of proportion to the dubious merit of the tawdry and self-conscious Shakespearianism of The Lady's Not for Burning . . . ALAN R. TRUSTMAN Cambridge, Mass...
...friendly aid from that front and not from the imperialist front. . . We also oppose the illusion of a third road ... In the world without exception one either leans to the side of imperialism or the side of socialism. Neutrality is a camouflage." He flavored his pronouncement with a Chinese metaphor: "You have to choose between killing the tiger or being eaten...
Paternalism is a smear word. Harvard doesn't pat its students on the head, doesn't outfit their play pens, doesn't sit down with them for fatherly advice. But a Yale student might mix an incisive metaphor and say this; in trying to avoid paternalism, Harvard leans over backwards so far that it falls flat on its face...
...forte is fireworks, not illumination. The keynote is sounded in the first five minutes, when the soldier exclaims: "What a wonderful thing is metaphor." Fry, in the last analysis, pins his real faith on words-by no means a bad thing for a writer to pin it on. He sometimes loves words too well: The Lady shows a streak of the clever undergraduate, the babbling drunk; it plays practical jokes on the slopes of Parnassus. Like much poetry today, it turns abruptly colloquial, with calculated bathos; at other times it bellies out with defiant bombast...
...shakes a metaphor like a wet dog shaking himself dry. A man is broken "on the wheel of a dream"; the night wind passes "like a sail across/ A blind man's eye"; an old house "looks as though the walls had cried themselves/ To sleep"; a happy character "sits and purrs/ As though the morning were a saucer of milk"; the fields of grain move "like a lion's mane"; flowers gather "like pilgrims in the aisles of the sun"; the morning leaves "the sunlight on my step like any normal/ Tradesman." Fry's most persistent...