Word: metaphored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Economist Arthur Burns, who took a leave from Columbia University last year to become the Administration's top economist, last week used a homely, school-teaching metaphor to tell some of his old colleagues what he thought about the state of the U.S. economy. Said Burns at a dinner in Columbia's Men's Faculty Club: "Early this year a scissors movement began to develop in the economy, with the financial and investment sector occupying the upper blade and the industrial sector the lower blade." The scissors, predicted Burns, are unlikely to remain open for long...
...favor the unexpected slogan, the daring phrase, and the clever metaphor. After discarding a welter of potential winners I finally penned this entry, "I want to go to Niagara Falls and see the whole cast of Rose Marie go over the Falls in a Cinemascopic Barrel...
Chandler still brings some of his sentences to a halt with the too-arresting simile or metaphor. An hour crawls by "like a sick cockroach." A clam-lipped Marlowe says: "What I'd tell him you could fold into a blade of grass." But Chandler's world has a rasping authenticity, from its lingo to its lingerie...
Medieval Essays is a handy sampler of Dawson's view of history. He writes with the smooth mixture of clarity, scholarship and happy metaphor that characterizes good British historians, and the imperturbability of a man content with a limited audience. (His 15 books have had an average U.S. sale of 3,600 copies...
Magic to Moby. In each of these fields, the educators recommended a tough intellectual diet. Suggested reading in the literature course ranges from Moby Dick to The Magic Mountain. Students are expected to understand the use of metaphor and symbolism, to recognize the great literary themes (e.g., "Christian atonement" in Lord Jim, "the defiance of Lucifer" in Moby Dick), to be familiar with various literary devices. The Latin course takes them through Cicero's De Senectute, Livy, Sallust, some of St. Augustine and Horace. The Greek course covers Xenophon, Plato and Homer. In mathematics, students plunge into calculus...