Word: metaphors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democrats, is really stagnation: the economy has been growing at a rate of 2.3% since 1953 when it ought to have been growing at a rate of 4.5% (or 5% or 6%). Humphrey and Johnson have hit the "growth" issue hardest. "Tight money," cries Johnson in a scrambled metaphor, "can only mean a tight grip of stagnation about the windpipe of our future." Humphrey, playing on an old Populist dislike of bankers, claims that the Administration's tight-money policy, by pushing up interest rates, is "a benefit for the big banks...
...Blows (French). Director Francois Truffaut has turned the story of a small boy's desperate attempt to escape from the heartsick world of his parents into a stunning metaphor for modern man trapped in the society he has fashioned...
...Blows (French). Director François Truffaut has turned the story of a small boy's desperate attempt to escape from the heartsick world of his parents into a stunning metaphor for modern man trapped in the society he has fashioned...