Word: metaphoric
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...metaphor is neither facile nor gratuitous, and Reed crafts it carefully throughout...
...which grains of salt were placed on an eight-day-old babe's lips, prefigures the Roman Catholic baptismal ceremony in which a morsel of salt is placed in the mouth of the child to ensure its allegorical purification. In the Christian catechism, salt is still a metaphor for the grace and wisdom of Christ. When Matthew says, "Ye are the salt of the earth/' he is addressing the blessed, the worthy sheep in the flock, not the erring goats...
...obviously distraught President. But few advisers possess the fortitude to tell their President that they do not know what he is talking about. I mumbled something noncommittal that Nixon construed as assent. "All right," he said, "we will draw the wagons around the White House." He gave that enigmatic metaphor no further content before hanging up suddenly...
HANOVER, N.H.--The walls of Dartmouth's gym are green, the wooden benches are slated seats of dull gray. Perhaps the color scheme is no apt a metaphor as anything for their basketball season. The Green played big in the first half of last night's Ivy encounter against Harvard, but a combination of an inspired Crimson second-half play, and a self-imposed Dartmouth belittlement led Harvard...
...chastises the President's simplemindedness in foreign affairs the metaphor probably reflects a shared and abiding American faith in a world we can solve. That geometric precision may not be attuned to modern life. The cube cliche recalls the Gordian Knot, that ancient interlocking challenge whose solution held the secrets of Asian conquest. Like Alexander bringing Hellenism to the heathen, Americans want to bear democracy and Western hopes and dreams to an undemocratic non-Western world...