Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the Twenty-first Century. Marina Warner. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]18.99. xx + 469 pages. ISBN 0-19-929994-3. Marina Warner, who rejects the thesis of a 'God-given soul', is concerned in this book (originating with O.U.P. New York) with the relationship among soul, spirit and...
When talking about war, sports analogies are out, liquid metaphors are in. Turn on the tube and some military official or policy wonk is likely to be yapping on about Iraq in language that will make you thirsty. Take Gen. David Petraeus' interview with PBS' Jim...
Commissions for orchestras of unlimited size come so rarely that most composers welcome the temptation of a grand and, they hope, glorious noise. Simon Bainbridge has been there, done that two decades ago, in a Fantasia for Double Orchestra that still counts as a peak in his now substantial output....
Years ago, when I was first posted from Moscow to Washington, one thing preyed on my mind about the new assignment. How on earth would I ever understand that strange variant of football called gridiron? Not to worry, a colleague from an eminent US newspaper assured me. The game, he...
Russel COOPER, Gary MADDEN, Ashley LLOYD & Michael SCHIPP Eds The Economics of Online Markets and ICT Networks Physica-Verlag, Contributions to Economics Series, Heidelberg, 2006, 267 pages The contributions brought together in this book are representative of the current state of the economy of ICTs: They effectively cover...
I hear you knocking. Automated port scans, which look for open ports that might be candidates for exploitation, are sometimes likened to a thief rattling doorknobs, looking for one that's unlocked. New research from the University of Maryland shows that this metaphor might be off base....
JANET MARTIN SOSKICE of Cambridge University has been at the forefront of a theological movement largely inspired by Karl Barth that asserts a renewed confidence in the intelligibility of theology. Her book Metaphor and Religious Language Oxford University Press argues for taking biblical metaphors seriously and for not translating them...
"I am to speak of what all People are busie about, but not one in Forty understands: Every Man has a Concern in it, few know what it is, nor is it easy to define or describe it. If a Man goes about to explain it by...
VENICE, Italy AFP — Sipping a coffee in a small cafe on the Venice Lido, Charlotte Rampling reflects on romantic love and says she believes that only the finest of faultlines exist between love and disaster. "We think we're creating a home, that we're creating a universe, that we're...
SIRENS AND SOPRANOS Before he sailed to Ithaca, Odysseus was warned by the goddess Circe to beware the Sirens, who lured sailors to wreck on their craggy-shored island with beautiful, hypnotic singing. Odysseus, wishing to hear the Sirens without falling prey to their temptation, ordered his men to tie him...
But no one can make his way into a strong man's house and plunder his property unless he has first tied up the strong man. (1) INTRODUCTION The anthropologist Clifford Geertz once observed that "[a]t the political center of any...
Alfred Marshall remains somewhat of an enigmatic figure in the evolution of economic analysis. Historians of economic thought almost invariably accord Marshall a prominent role in the early development of "neoclassical" economics and in partial equilibrium analysis in particular. However, as Gerald Shove's (1942) and Joseph Schumpeter's (1941) semi-centennial appraisals...
THE TIME HAS COME FOR A NEW METAPHORICAL STANDARD OR archetype in the business of providing financial advice. The reason this industry needs a new metaphorical anchor is because the metaphor that defines the industry also defines the client's experience. Exactly what archetype has undergirded this...
By MICHAEL RUSE. Harvard University Press. 371pp. $29.95. With a palpable twinge of defensiveness, the French biologist Lucien Cuenot once boldly asserted, "It is not foolhardy to believe that the eye is made for seeing." No kidding. So why the defensive tone? Such is...
This paper discusses and describes the evolution of the internet from a commerce metaphor to a social metaphor, and that as web technologies advance new measures and values need to be in place to determine economic worth and collateral. NextStage's suggestion is that StoryTelling is a measure and Success is...
Edited by Kurt Ritter and Martin Medhurst. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2003. 221 pp. Presidential Speechwriting is a compendium of eight essays on the speechwriting strategies of nine presidents, from Franklin Roosevelt through Ronald Reagan. These essays were first delivered at...
H'RUMPHS HUMOR Remember the TV commercial where a man is walking down a dark city street and nervously glances back at two shadowy figures? The tension builds until the figures step into the light and reveal themselves as Boy Scouts, leaving the man visibly relieved and a little embarrassed that...
In this article it is argued that codes of conduct may be a starting point in examining the ethics of a business organization, but a deeper under-standing of the ethics and morality of a firm may be found in the stories that circulate from employee to employee and, more specifically,...
People commonly think of history as a pendulum, swinging back and forth between two extremes. This image doesn't quite capture reality, however, because context is constantly changing. A better metaphor might be a spiral, circling around a center point while constantly shifting context. This article explains this metaphor with illustrations...
"Art of the Lega: Meaning and Metaphor in Central Africa" is a collaborative effort between the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City and the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History. Drawing from the collection of Jay T. Last, the exhibition's curator, Elisabeth L. Cameron, selected approximately 240 animal and...
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