Word: metaphors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committed to any one religion. He involved himself deeply in both Christianity and Buddhism but called himself an agnostic. God, he said, was a feeling that "wells up from a deeper level of the psyche." As for man's relationship to that sacred force, Toynbee once used a metaphor from his own dreams. In this dream, he said, he had seen himself holding onto the foot of the crucifix high above the altar of the Benedictine Abbey of Ampleforth in Yorkshire. Then he heard a voice call out in flawless Latin: "Amplexus expecta "-Cling and wait...
Herzog, 33, is a sort of social anthropologist manqué who has been prominent in the perennially fizzling resurgence of the West German cinema. It has been suggested that in Every Man Herzog is struggling to create a new metaphor for the state of modern Germany. This is one of those facile, cover all apologies, like saying an Italian film is a thinly disguised attack on the Roman Catholic Church, or a novel about contemporary Ireland reflects the agonies of civil war. It cannot save the movie from indistinction...
...connoisseurs. Stephen Spender considers him Italy's greatest living poet, and the academy cited Montale's pessimistic but "indelible feeling for the value of life and the dignity of mankind." Part of this admiration undoubtedly stems from Montale's mastery of the doom-filled Eliotic metaphor ("All our life and all its labors spent/ Are like a man upon a journey sent/ Along a wall that's sheer and steep and endless, dressed/ With bits of broken bottles on its crest"). Part is due to the writer's stoic career. Like an earlier Nobel laureate...
...Lurie often mentions Lang's reticence. She had a noncommittal way of referring to herself and others. If she was asked to describe a person, their name was about all that could be coaxed out of her. A feeling of coldness turns up often as a metaphor in Lang's writing, and it implies that the distance she keeps, her frigidity, is a way of defending her independence...
Said Trans World Airlines Chairman Charles C. Tillinghast Jr., in a burst of metaphor mixing: "The current regulatory system has served this country well, and before we play Russian roulette with it, we should make doubly sure that the cure proposed is not worse than the disease." The Air Transport Association, meeting in Washington, called the President's proposals "misconceived...