http://www.englishforums.com/English/EslGeneralEnglishGrammar-Questions/Forum12.htmAsk your questions on grammar and get your sentence checked. We answer lots of different types of general English grammar questions here. <font color=red>DO NOT post paragraphs and compositions here. Post them in our <a href="http://www.englishforums.com/English/EssayReportCompositionWriting/Forum9.htm"><b>Essay, Report and Composition Writing Forum</b></a>.</font>enXMOD (Build: 3715.30106)http://www.englishforums.com/English/ArchitectPassos/vbhmj/post.htm#341628Thu, 21 May 2009 13:29:16 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:341628Cadzao0http://www.englishforums.com/English/ArchitectPassos/vbhmj/post.htm#341628http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-341628.xmlThank you Marius Hancu for your help. I greatly appreciate your kindness. Cadzao.http://www.englishforums.com/English/ArchitectPassos/vbhmj/post.htm#341269Thu, 21 May 2009 13:29:16 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:341269Marius Hancu1http://www.englishforums.com/English/ArchitectPassos/vbhmj/post.htm#341269http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-341269.xmlSearch for your idioms at Yahoo this way: "coming of age" dictionary in order to find dictionary pages on that idiom. Puller of levers = a person who pulls levers pusher of buttons = a person who pushes buttons (who doesn't do anything creative, but merely executes procedures and orders) vicarious power = power exercised on behalf of others his (power) made possible through the abilities of machineshttp://www.englishforums.com/English/ArchitectPassos/vbhmj/post.htmSun, 21 Jun 2009 13:29:16 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:341233Cadzao2http://www.englishforums.com/English/ArchitectPassos/vbhmj/post.htmhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-341233.xmlDos Passos wrote: "Inventor of plans, "plotter of tomorow's girderwork phrases, "he preaches to the young men coming of age in the time of oprression, cooped up by the plasterboard partitions of finance routine, their lives and plans made poor by feudal levies of parasite money standing astride every process to shake down progress for the cutting of coupons: "The properly citified citizen has become a broker, dealing chiefly in human frailties or the ideas and inventions of others, a puller of levers, a presser of buttons of vicarious power , his by way of machine craft... and over beside him and beneath him, even in his heart as he sleeps, is the taximeter of rent, in some form to goad this anxious consumer's unceasing...