Word: metaphors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women, especially that written before this century, casts the adolescent as heroine: for centuries, adolescence was the climax and turning point of a woman's life, the time when she married and took on another--a man's--identity. But more significant is the potence of adolescence as a metaphor for woman's condition. Women, like adolescents, are frustrated in their desire for autonomy; they are encouraged to remain children; their attempts at self-definition are never so desperate. Spacks reserves her strongest language and most poignant metaphors for elaborating this argument...
...California. West, who did some screenwriting himself, knew the raw fringes of the movie world. He saw the kind of anxiety that led people to Los Angeles and the gaudy madness that was nurtured there. He used Los Angeles, and particularly the tawdry glamour of Hollywood, as a perfect metaphor for the screaming end of many poor dreams of glory. West wrote with fury, but without rancor or condescension. "It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible the results are," runs the novel's most famous passage...
...good; but the effort to go further, to establish Caro as the one and only serious heavy weight, can lead Caro's exegetes into some astounding cadenzas of gibberish. Thus to Michael Fried a simple cantilever structure like Caro's Prairie (1967) becomes nothing less than a metaphor of sublime essence rising above the gross sublunary earth: "Prairie defines the ground, not as that which ultimately supports everything else, but as that which does not in itself require support. It makes this fact about the ground both phenomenologically surprising and sculpturally significant...
...message and milieu, the opening of the Bicentennial celebration was marked by a more serious confusion of historical interpretation and present purpose. "The two lanterns of the Old North Church have fired a torch of freedom that has been carried to the ends of the earth," was Ford's metaphor for the action that marked the start of the colonists revolution, and throughout his speech the president revealed that it was more the torch than the freedom that he found inspiring. The blood of the Civil War, the corpse-ridden trenches of the First World War and the seared flesh...
...never found either my high school principal or cliches terribly insightful, but this metaphor seems strangely applicable to Harvard. Its educational ocean is filled with more than the normal complement of sharks and barracuda, electric eels and suckers: and to most people, just how they will find their place in the land of Neptune-in-Cambridge is as mysterious as the location of sunken Atlantis...