Word: metaphors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Author Friedman, 34, and an editor of adventure magazines, employs a distinctive, metaphor-strewn prose whose characteristic sound is that of a 33-r.p.m. record being played at 333. Anxiety rides every page, and the wit is wounding...
...beautiful rhythm of their lines by deliberately stuttering and halting over them for a kind of dramatic effect. All the dramatic effect one can possibly ask for is right in the dialogue; one simply has to speak it naturally. As a result of this superficial treatment, much of the metaphor of the play goes unnoticed, and the deeply philosophical second act seems horribly out of place...
...personally announced "notable advances" for the second quarter in gross national product (a new record), nonfarm employment (another new record), and personal income. But the tide does not seem to be lifting everyone equally, and the Senate Select Committee on Small Business has just produced another, less pleasant nautical metaphor. As the committee sees it, U.S. small business is "floundering in the backwash" of the speeding economy, failing for the first time in modern business history to share proportionately in the nation's prosperity...
Anyone who discusses Perry Miller and his work, it seems, turns sooner or later to his metaphor of the New England "errand run into the wilderness"; it fits the man almost as well as his material. Miller himself used the phrase to describe the Messianic impulse which characterized colonial America. His friends and colleagues, contributors to this memorial issue of The Harvard Review, employ it to catch something of the impression he made...
...there was more to the old Nick than a Ph.D. from Sing Sing. He was a man of resplendent metaphor. His shoe trees were casts that had been made from his feet, and he described himself as distingue. W. C. Fields modeled his style, his speech and his manner after Nicky Arnstein. Something quite approximate to the real Nicky might have cured the flaws in Funny Girl. Instead, Stark settled for a paraffin prince out of Franz Lehar, who only turns to fraud out of temporary insanity arising from his embarrassment over accepting handouts from Fanny. Hence Barbra Streisand...