Word: metaphors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conservatives have long been disturbed by liberal trends at Concordia, which has allowed its professors to inter pret Scripture by the historical-critical method. Using that system, scholars consider the Scriptures in their historical and literary settings, which may suggest that some accounts are myth, others metaphor. Tietjen has forthrightly de fended his faculty against attacks, arguing that God's word was never meant to be judged so factually. Last summer Preus was re-elected overwhelmingly at the Synod convention in New Orleans...
...words from Chinese art, but paintings like these make one realize how the terms have suffered in transit. To speak, for instance, of the "calligraphy" of a Western artist-Pollock's dripped skeins of paint, or the brisk rhythmic jotting of a Rembrandt sketch -is to use a metaphor. In classical Chinese painting, it is not. The wen-jen used the same brush for painting and writing, the same ink, the same habits of mind. The distinction between word and image, which is one of the sharpest divisions in our culture, barely existed for them at all; they expressed...
Thomas is a readable writer, and the events of the McCarthy period provide fine substance for his narrative sweep. Although he warns that his book is not a biography, Thomas convincingly illustrates the days of McCarthy's life. He settles on the metaphor of the buccaneer, and the book's thesis--if it can be said to have one--is that McCarthy had neither principles nor politics, but only the pirate's instinct to hit and run. One wonders why Thomas insists on so distinguishing this book as a non-biography. To be sure, he has glossed over the Senator...
...Sporting Metaphor. One very uncertain factor in the complicated equation is how the Russians will respond. Kissinger's caravan through the Middle East, as well as the results he achieved, were reported briefly and without comment in the Soviet Union last week. The Soviets, celebrating the 56th anniversary of the October Revolution,* seemed to have put the Middle East aside temporarily. Nonetheless, there appeared to be some anxiety in the Kremlin over the diplomatic success that the U.S. and its Secretary of State were having-in a sense at Soviet expense. One Moscow editor called the U.S. attempt...
While maintaining the narrative and dramatic pitch of the poem, Fitzgerald's verse is open to the full beauty of metaphor and resonance of cadence in Homer's poem. At the same time, he preserves the freshness and vitality of the original, and this is perhaps the genius of Fitzgerald's translation...