Word: metaphores
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...such presidential support seems misplaced. The weakness in Princeton's system centers on the student committee itself, a collection of three not so holy trinities, to borrow Brennan's metaphor. The committee consists of three current class presidents, three past class presidents, and three students selected from the student body at large. One need not dismiss young government enthusiasts entirely to question a class president's qualifications to make a decision that will affect a student's academic and professional future. A successful class campaign probably results more from candidate's popularity or familiarity with of students than it does...
Neighborhood resident Benny Sullivan drew a lengthy metaphor between his own marathon running and Flynn's race for mayor, adding "Ray's done his road work...
...ironically heightening its impact on the reader. More important, Brill's determination to carry out what he regards as his mission in the face of these obstacles endows him with a necessary depth of character. The resulting intensity of the novel surfaces in language so rich with imagery and metaphor that parts of it read like verse...
Similarly, TIME'S tone was flip and irreverent, but the magazine combined with this a certain solemnity about American?and Western?values. These included self-reliance, success and salvation through progress. TIME certainly did not accept T.S. Eliot's metaphor for modern civilization: a review of The Waste Land in the first issue suggested that the poem might be a hoax...
...those days: Rickey, Robinson, Reese, Durocher, Sukeforth, Campanella, Veeck, Mays, Aaron, Newcombe...At the very least, we are grateful to Tygiel for culling these names and others from scrapbooks and long-destroyed card collections. And at the most, Tygiel transforms a dramatic but simple tale into a complex metaphor for some of the driving forces of modern society. As he concludes:" ...if the vision of an integrated and equal society, free from racism and discrimination, which impelled Rickey and Robinson to launch their 'great experiment' remains unfulfilled, their efforts have brought it closer to reality...