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wasn’t so tragic, it would be funny. Have we effectively stamped out slavery in Africa, of course not. Right now, there are hundreds of thousands of slaves in the Sudan. Neither the continental African nor the African-American leadership has declared their resolve to stamp out slavery in that part of the world. They are all afraid that the little handout the Sudanese Arabs are giving them will be cut off. They are all toothless bulldogs. They go in reverse gear when it is time to move forward. We must attack the impediment to our progress. I recently watched the great PBS program on Africa created and produced by Prof. Louis Gates, Jr. of Harvard University. I was nevertheless disgusted by the childish whining of Prof. Gates about Africans selling his ancestors into slavery. I say to you Prof. Gates, this is the time to right the wrong done to your forebears
him to a bulldog (as opposed, say, to a French poodle), while at the same time trimming the feature space in terms of the subject's [Churchill's] salient 182 The dark side features" (p. 91). Unfortunately Fogelin does not go into detail about "trim- ming the feature space." I believe the idea is that, having rejected the simile as literal, the hearer nonetheless charitably assumes that the alleged similarity does obtain, and now ignores the salient features of bulldogs that most obvi- ously make the literal comparison false and looks for features that match the salient features of Churchill. (I am not sure what these would be; toughness, tenacity, earthiness, and looking like a bulldog?) On this view, sentences have metaphorical meanings in context that differ from their literal meanings; yet it does not follow that any expression in the sentence has changed its meaning from literal to figurative use, or that the
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