Chrysti The Wordsmith: Iron Curtain

Greetings and welcome to Christie the wordsmith Sir Winston Churchill did not invent the phrase Iron Curtain but when he inserted it in a speech at Westminster College in Fullerton Missouri he certainly made it famous his words on March 5th 1946 were from Stettin in the Baltic to tree yest in the Adriatic an Iron Curtain has descended across the continent. Churchill intended the phrase to metaphorically demarcate the illogical barrier between communist and noncommunist nations. The Oxford English Dictionary asserts this phrase in its nonpolitical incarnation is at least 200 years old an iron curtain in 18th and 19th century Europe was literally that a curtain or sheet of iron in a theater engineered to drop to prevent the spread of fire throughout the auditorium in an English document dated 18 29. The author writes As a precaution against fire and iron curtain was constructed so as to let down in a moment of danger and separate the audience from the stage. The political implication of the term relies on the image of an impenetrable barrier

separating one area from another as in the iron theatre curtain segregating stage from audience model on this linguistic construction is the moniker bamboo curtain. The political barrier between territories under the control of the communist regime in China and noncommunist countries. The phrase was first printed in a 1949 issue of TIME magazine from Montana State University in Bozeman. I'm Christie the wordsmith. Good day verb of course Christie the wordsmith is sponsored by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Zoot enterprises a high tech firm in Bozeman Montana offering challenging careers and innovative solutions for the financial services industry. Zoot web dot com.