Word: metaphorization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With his wife and five children, Hartman emigrated to Israel in 1971. "When he left Canada," says the writer Charles Krauthammer, a former Hartman student, "it was like losing Wayne Gretzky" -- and when he landed in Israel, his luggage was stolen. "A perfect metaphor for the transition between dreams and reality," says Hartman. "But I didn't care. I was a deep believer. I thought I was going to participate in a great spiritual renaissance. What I have found instead is that a traumatized psyche has combined with a self- congratulatory ethos to distort the true meaning of the Jewish...
What distinguishes the Exodus as such a powerful metaphor is not simply the courage of the Israelites in the face of the world's mightiest empire. Nor is it only the fiery spirit of revolt. Rather, it is the unique sense of purpose with which the Israelites spoke out not only for the people but for their God: Let my people go that they may serve Me. The Israelites sought liberty not to do as they might please, but to transform their servitude into freely given service to their...
Seeing the cold war as World War III is not just a metaphor. It helps to explain the current rush to demobilize. We are again in the grip of a postwar euphoria, and our instinct is to do what we have always done: demobilize first, ask questions later...
...Goethe said life was a metaphor. What is the metaphor for your life during the past 40 years...
...enough straining the metaphor; the fight was important in itself and needs no lofty comparisons to justify the media klieg lights trained on it. For the future, aficionados should keep an eye on Douglas, the new champion on the bloc. Just because a new face has replaced the old and interminable domination has ended doesn't mean we should hail the arrival of a boxing Era of Equity. Buster Douglas is champ, but the world is not necessarily a better place for his victory. Lots of things could happen from here, and many of them are rather forbidding prospects...