Word: metaphors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent "white roots" phenomenon is a reversal of U.S. tradition. In other periods, immigration was the sincerest form of flattery. Many of the populations that came to the U.S. were in flight from the past. To them, the concept of a new world was no metaphor: for the first time they were free of regal decree and military repression, released from the specters of famine and caste. In fact, the importance of lineage had been eroding since the Middle Ages. Rising middle classes demanded recognition for performance, not tradition. The Industrial Revolution identified the worker, like his machinery, with...
McCarthy also offered some observations about his Democratic opponent's literary preferences. "Carter's not much for poetry...(or) metaphor," McCarthy said, adding that the president's speeches rely heavily on adverbs and adjectives, two parts of speech which, in McCarthy's opinion, fail to convey philosophical meaning...
Only one symbolic moments occurs in the play. At the close of the first act, anarchist demonstrators toss a brick through a window of the presidential palace, landing with a resounding thud upon the stage. This may be taken as a metaphor for The President; it is about as interesting and it lands with a similar thud...
...second act is not as good, not as quick or as funny, tacked on as if Stoppard also needed to catch his breath. For one thing, he finds himself caught in his extended metaphor on The Importance of Being Ernest. For another, the second act is more concerned with Lenin, ably portrayed by Jack Bittner. But the speeches he gives are Lenin's own, and political bombast is only amusing in a very bourgeois sense. The act moves to conclusion inexorably picking up speed, and unifying it with the first act is Wood's tremendous performance as Carr. Finally...
...safeguards against extravagant profits-possibly a "windfall profits tax" on energy companies that are allowed to raise prices. Finally, it seems sure that the program will not relax tough environmental controls on energy use. David Freeman, 51, Schlesinger's senior aide, puts the point in a gloriously mixed metaphor: "We start out with the cornerstone of our energy policy cut from environmental cloth...