Word: metaphoritis
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Unlike the Vietnam War, the Gulf crisis has seen legitimate questions raised from the beginning on every op-ed page and around every dinner table in the nation. The very historical existence of the Vietnam conflict and the continuing existence of a Vietnam metaphor is strong assurance that Vietnam will not be repeated...
...makes a nifty conspiracy theory. Unfortunately, it's not true. The hard fought and infrequently won tenure battles (the war metaphor is Kimball's and the Times', not mine) by members of "special interest" groups have hardly changed the faces in the academic group photo...
...major obstacle in pursuing change remains. As Gilligan sees it, the language of our culture "hasn't been able to represent difference without hierarchy. For us to do that, it is really necessary to have a change in language." A former dancer, she reaches for a musical metaphor to suggest how the contrasting voices of men and women might blend. "One can think of the oboe and the clarinet as different," she says. "Yet when they play together, there is a sound that's not either one of them, but it doesn't dissolve the identity of either instrument...
...Metaphor of the Week: Harvard cornerback Marty Bowen's description of his 65-yard punt return to the Brown 10-yard line...
...Columbus Day crack-up -- and the week of budget blustering that followed -- can serve as a lasting metaphor for national decline. Picture a government so broke and divided that patriotic tourists in Washington were caught between frustration (closed monuments) and farce (Congress in session). The public reaction was rage, an indiscriminate mad-as-hell roar. The politicians responded at first in typical fashion: posturing and finger pointing in an effort to apportion partisan blame...