Word: metaphor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That Georgia thigh-slapper provides the President with a metaphor to explain the trouble he has faced for almost a year. When he took office, his desk was piled high with work undone, needs neglected, problems postponed. Such urgent tasks as creating an energy policy, stopping the drain of Social Security funds and reforming the tax and welfare systems had been ignored or put off, largely because nobody had solutions that seemed workable or politically feasible. Like a quarterback who prefers the long bomb to the drudgery of three yards and a cloud of dust, the President threw...
...blind date," originally a slang phrase for a rape technique Levanter learns as an adolescent, soon becomes a metaphor Kosinski uses to describe people's willingness to embark on the dramatic, unpredictable incidents with which he feels they should fill their lives...
Levanter fills his life with such incidents, and, as the metaphor develops, his curious, slightly unrealistic lifestyle becomes comprehensible, if not quite admirable...
...path to freedom is slightly less compelling, but only because in his case Morrison leaves the city community she has drawn so clearly for a hazier south. Milkman has gone off to find the source of his grandfather's strength, and somehow in the process reality turns to metaphor. The change is somehow not quite satisfying; where other characters have been in-comprehensible at first, gradually gaining clarity, Milkman moves from the understandable to the obstruse. When he finally stands up, facing death at the hands of his former friend, he has found his freedom, but it is a freedom...
...Fast, sitting at Houghton Mifflin looking out a windows at the traffic on Boston's Park Street, went on to extend his metaphor...