Word: metaphor
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...Delisle soon learns that the lights stay off throughout most of the city, to save on power, except when they illuminate huge monuments dedicated to the country's father-son ruling dynasty. This lack of illumination, except for the dear leaders' visage, becomes Delisle's natural running metaphor for the country's blinkered culture...
Alex Slack ‘06, an editorial executive, is a history concentrator in Leverett House. He is jealous of his friends who are sure of what they want to do post-college, and he hopes no one noticed the weird mixed metaphor in his postcard’s last sentence. Expos taught him to try to connect his titles with his conclusions...
...cognitive scientist at Harvard. "It's a bit of a conceptual mismatch. If your roof leaks, you don't have a war against rain." Often those waging the wars request a name change. Drug czar Barry McCaffrey, who fought in Vietnam and the Persian Gulf, called the war metaphor "inadequate" for drugs in 1996: "This isn't going to be won by anybody's army." Former State Department official David Long told the New York Times in 1998 that flu would be a better analogy for terrorism: "Every year there's a new strain. You manage...
...Japanese monster movies of the 1950s were one pop metaphor from the only people to have been the targets of an atom bomb. Barefoot Gen is another: a memoir (by writer-producer Keiji Nakazawa) of a boy's life in Hiroshima before and after the blast. Gen, on his way to school on Aug. 6, 1945, must become a man amid the city's charnel rubble. The stench of burning bodies will adhere to you; this is no movie for kids. It does have the awful poignancy of a national nightmare--and in cartoon form...
...spacecraft is a metaphor of national inspiration: majestic, technologically advanced, produced at dear cost and entrusted with precious cargo, rising above the constraints of the earth. The spacecraft carries our secret hope that there is something better out there--a world where we may someday go and leave the sorrows of the past behind. The spacecraft rises toward the heavens exactly as, in our finest moments as a nation, our hearts have risen toward justice and principle. And when, for no clear reason, the vessel crumbles, as it did in 1986 with Challenger and last week with Columbia, we falsely...