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Thursday, October 20, 2005
BLOG THAT METAPHOR A regular University Diaries feature, in which UD highlights profoundly mixed metaphors in university writing. This example is from today’s Yale Daily News : The competing ideals of the caring, stay-at-home mother and the high-powered career woman have collided for decades, and Ivy League schools have often been breeding grounds for the latter. In a New York Times article last month, Louise Story '03 SOM '06 tackled this issue, igniting controversy by asserting that most Ivy League women want to forgo career success for family. |