Word: metaphoritis
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...language of moral equivalence has become routine. Calling something the moral equivalent of war, for example, is a favorite presidential technique for summoning the nation to a cause. That metaphor, coined by William James, was last pressed into service by Jimmy Carter to gird us for the energy crisis. Before that, we have had wars on poverty, crime, cancer and even war itself (World War I). Now, Mr. Carter knew that turning down thermostats and risking lives in combat make disproportionate claims on the citizenry. Indeed, he sought to exploit that disproportion to rally the nation to the unglamorous task...
Perhaps the most unusual company that will appear at the festival all summer is the Théâtre du Soleil (Theater of the Sun) from France. Founded in 1964 by Oxford-educated Director Ariane Mnouchkine, the troupe attempts to create a theater of pure metaphor, stripped of the last trace of realism. Believing that all Westerners are too close to Shakespeare to really see him, Mnouchkine borrows from the traditions of the Orient to seek the dramatic core of his plays. French, from her own translation, is the language coming from her actors' mouths, but the dramatic idiom...
...scenes were a kind of visual metaphor for Reagan's foreign policy these days: placidity and fellowship front and center, tension and turmoil in the background. The trip to Ireland opened a ten-day tour filled with the kind of ceremony-visits to castles, palaces and battlefields-at which the President excels...
...holding formal hearings, raised more questions than it resolved. "The subcommittee believes that it has received responses from some of these persons that were not candid," its 2,313-page report said. "This prevented it from fully resolving the briefing-book issue." In a strange twist on an old metaphor, Chairman Albosta said: "We have a warm barrel, but the smoke is still to be found.'' Nonetheless, the report concluded that the Reagan campaign conducted "organized efforts" to obtain documents from the Carter camp...
...disease. More neutral and less self-consciously uplifting than Pepper's book, Life and Death on 10 West often strikes at the heart and informs the intellect with more force than We the Victors. Both works, however, have splendidly succeeded in substituting the human reality for the demonic metaphor...