Word: metaphors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...merger proposals are still "at a very informal stage," and on Wall Street last week some of his old colleagues did not seem to share his confidence in the Boston & Maine's future. "I think a swift breeze could take them right off the diving board," said one metaphor mixer. "McGinnis is probably abandoning a sinking ship...
...gloomier metaphor was ever coined to lend a semblance of shape to man's long struggle through history. Cultures, said Oswald Spengler, are limited biological forms of life?like inchworms, like oak trees, like men. Mysteriously born, they inexorably grow old, decay according to discernible pattern and then die. What is more, Spengler insisted, Western culture has already reached the last stages of its allotted life span...
...Angels? with expectable enthusiasm, while a Roman Catholic prelate called it "a dirty glove thrown in the face of the church." It is, more exactly, a nearly successful work of art, ultimately confusing, relentlessly ambiguous, but strong and moving; and it uses its bizarre theme as a metaphor to probe toward the vague but universal demons that can rise in any man and drive him insane. Listening to all the mad nuns singing their beautiful liturgies in clear and healthy young voices, a villager suggests: "Perhaps there are no devils in the convent after all"-just women...
...Criticism is still new. Commager's technique, however, is not that of a neophyte, for he moves with ease from the world of scholia and emendations to that of tone and imagery. At one point he combines the two methods quite neatly, when he uses Horace's consistent seasonal metaphor as evidence to correct a reading suggested by the magisterial Bentley...
Hoffmann thought Hughes too anxious to "leap into the millennium," and Waskow too anxious to believe in "the seesaw metaphor." Figuring that the Soviet Union should be expected to act in its military self-interest. Hoffmann urged the continuation of America's deterrent posture and placed his faith in the self-restraint of strategists on both sides...