Word: metaphors
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...than David's. The Bible is replete with instances in which "Jesus may not be the author of evil, but He permitted it [for reasons of His own]," she notes. She recalls His telling Peter after the Last Supper that Satan has asked "to sift you like wheat," a metaphor suggesting agony...
...fourth largest city. This supremacy extended to the diamond, where the Yankees and Giants won pennant after pennant. In the Dodgers—a team that embraced Brooklyn’s underdog role and uniquely represented a borough rather than a city—Brooklynites found a metaphor for their municipal existence and rooted like mad for “Dem Bums” to outshine their pretentious Manhattan neighbors. When the team left, Brooklyn’s spirit of resistance perished, and it soon became just another borough. The word “Brooklyn” had originally come...
...Another metaphor: The supposed church-state wall between the editorial and business sides of a newspaper. Same motivation: keep the information pure and unbiased, so everybody could trust that, say, the science wasn't touting a new Merck wonder drug because Merck had paid good money for all that ad space on the facing page...
That is the question that Kauffman and other theorists have struggled for many years to answer, and their ideas are finally seeping into the business mainstream. "The machine metaphor dominated how we thought about businesses in the Industrial Age," Kauffman says. But now "the biological metaphor--thinking of firms as an ecosystem--is making its way into the business world...
...which will air 13 episodes next season. Cable has filled in some of the breach too, notably on Showtime's Resurrection Blvd., TV's first Hispanic drama, returning in June. Creator Dennis Leoni says the story, about a family with roots in the boxing world, "was the perfect metaphor of Latinos trying to fight, literally and figuratively, for a piece of the American Dream...