Re: Please help with title interpretation
- From: "night owl" <nightowl@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 03:40:41 GMT
Gentlemen, thank you very much for your very prompt and helpful suggestions
particularly from Joseph Littleshoes and Peter Duncanson.. I was right, the
author, Alison McCook meant the title to be metaphorical. I just received an
email confirmation from her.
Have a nice day.
"Molly Mockford" <nospamnobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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At 20:49:46 on Sat, 22 Apr 2006, Peter Duncansonsafety
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<am1l42hic3r794cbf8i7bc1h1gfvlunfjv@xxxxxxx>:
There is a standard phrase "Lift the Veil" or "Lifting the Veil". It
means to remove a cover from something so that it can be seen.
"Lifting the Screen" seems like a variation of that phrase. The idea is
that the facts about cancer screening are hidden under a screen, and
that the article will remove the screen to reveal the facts.
I think there may also be a pun there, referring to lifting (=raising)
the standards of screening.
--
Molly Mockford
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deserve neither liberty nor safety - Benjamin Franklin
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