Word: metaphors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Probably never before in history has a sport been used so effectively as a tool of international diplomacy. With its premium on delicate skill and its onomatopoeic name implying an interplay of initiative and response. Ping Pong was an apt metaphor for the relations between Washington and Peking. "I was quite a Ping Pong player in my days at law school," President Nixon told his aides last week. "I might say I was fairly good...
...both sides. French Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann said casually: "There are really no serious problems with Britain's joining. We want Britain, and all we ask is that . . . she become a club member within the rules." Geoffrey Rippon, Britain's chief negotiator, struck a still cozier metaphor. "Reasonable men, given enough coffee and cognac," he observed, "can quickly see whether they can reach agreement." But all the signs are that it will take a lot of cognac to float Britain into the select club of Europe...
...nature that precludes our connecting him concretely to other aspects of reality, i.e. perceiving political signification. Petri uses this character, an integral part of the System, to replace the System as a whole (metonymy)-a substitution structurally comparable to fetishism in Lacan's psychopathology-instead of creating conceptual signs (metaphor) with which to analyze the power structure...
...project dealing with the effects of radiation on the growth of marigolds. It is as small an event as Laura's dance with the Gentleman Caller in the Williams prototype and just as affecting. Craftily enough Zindel goes on to turn this rinky-dink science fair exhibit into a metaphor that ties the whole work together in a neat and ambivalent fashion by the final curtain...
...today because of our power, would suffer a blow from which it might not recover." The doubt remained: How far and how long would Nixon have the U.S. fight to keep Saigon out of Communist hands? Few Americans could be soothed when Nixon resurrected an ancient and unhappy Indochina metaphor, saying that his next troop withdrawal announcement would bring "some indication as to the end of the tunnel...