Word: metaphores
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Perhaps we have all, "gays" and "straights," got as far as we can with the metaphor of gays as a quasi-ethnic group entitled to its own "rights." Perhaps it is time to acknowledge that the potential to fall in love with, or just be attracted to, a person of the same sex is widespread among otherwise perfectly conventional people...
...intimately cajoles the reader, anticipating each next thought. "At this point, you might say..." is one his favorite turns of phrase. Despite his railings against Social Darwinism and sociobiology's attempts to connect human society and animal behavior. Gould sees all of history and literature as an elaborate metaphor liking our lives to the bizarre and complex world of evolutionary biology...
...this park until we have exhausted every other alternative," said Ickes. A month later, Ickes returned to the generals and told them Canada could supply the spruces -- but by then the generals' interest had turned from wood to metal for airplanes. Says Babbitt: "I take that story as a metaphor...
Those who remember Boston University President John Silber's gubernatorial run in 1990 will recall that he too mentioned the necessary consideration of limiting Medicare funds at a given point. His metaphor of apples being ripe for picking did not go over well when Bill Weld, his opponent, responded with TV ads showing sprightly old people dancing and playing bingo and then being told that, at the state's request, they should drop dead ASAP to ease the fiscal crisis. Even though the idea had distant poetic ancestry in Wilfred Owen's Dulce et Decorum est pro patria mori, Silber...
America thinks of itself as a diverse society -- a "gorgeous mosaic," in the words of New York City Mayor David Dinkins; a quilt of many ethnic and racial patches, in a favorite metaphor of the Rev. Jesse Jackson's. But the figures of the 1990 census, only now crunched, suggest that the demographic surface of life in the U.S. is a lot smoother than one thinks. So is the cultural surface, unless the politicians ruffle...