Word: metaphoritis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cube has become the glossy media's darling metaphor for "interlocking challenges." Fitting square cubes in round holes, Time described the world of international arms sales as a Rubik's Cube. The domestic situation being presumably less puzzling to a chauvinistic nation, opportunities for the analogy's application abound mainly abroad Newsweek compared President Reagan's foreign policy problems to the cube. The world, its cover slickly suggested, may not conform to his red hats-white hats view. Thanks to the analogy, Reagan's inability to handle more than one face of foreign affairs at a time fell into place...
...cultural ground was five generations of dialectical materialism were asked to give a rendering of the Apocalypse of St. John. Suppose that such a person knew next to nothing about the Christian eschatological belief, had never met a priest, thought all visions were delusions and had never used a metaphor in his life. Such a man would have difficulty with such a text; and we have the same kind of difficulties with primitive...
Mars is a powerful addition to the literature exploring links between cancer and psychological disturbance. Susan Sontag in her book Illness as Metaphor claims that the belief in a cancer-prone character type, "far from being confined to the back yard of folk superstition, passes for the most advanced medical thinking." Sontag attempts to refute such theories, ascribing them to fear and ignorance in the face of a disease that eludes any comprehensive cure. Yet, cogent arguments seem pale beside Zorn's anguished testimony. Testimony that drowns out dissent through its own vehemence...
...hubris to advance a world view, to rewrite the Bible in his Joseph novels, to devise the great metaphor of Europe as a sanatorium full of the walking wounded in The Magic Mountain. Was Thomas Mann ever unsure of himself, writing his quota of pages day after day in the comfort of a Germany he was later to renounce for exile in California? Was he ever young...
...convenient awakening from a dream, as in Alice's adventures, no consolation of an afterlife. All that remains is "a torrent of laughter . . . Then, silence." The Hunting surfaces in Finnegans Wake and powerfully influenced T.S. Eliot. Auden compared it with Moby Dick and advanced it as a metaphor for "mankind and human society moving through time and struggling with its destiny...