Re: Please help me with these sentences!Thanks!
kittylh wrote:Phooey on the First Families. On railroad, steel mill, automotive, public utility, banking and shipping fortunes, on all hermetic legacy, morganatic and blockbuster blood-lines that change the maps and landscapes and alter the mobility patterns, your jungle wheeling and downtown dealing a stone's throw from warfare.
"Oh, Phooey" is an expression indicating exasperation, like "Damnit." The author refers to the First Families as those who were the first to make it big in America, to become rich, when opportunity was ripe. He first damns the families that started the railroad, steel mill, automotive, public utiltiy, banking, and shipping industries.
By damning hermetic legacy, he is referring to the legacy of rich people keeping the wealth in their own families by passing leadership down to their children.
Morganatic and blockbuster blood-lines, is once again just referring to those greedy rich people. Blockbusters would be popular movies so using it as an adjective would refer to people who are in the big movie business, or metaphorically just rich and famous.
Changing the maps and mobility patterns...this much is pretty obvious, he is talking about people that help shape the world (rich people) as opposed to poor people who just accept it as is.
"your jungle wheeling and downtown dealing a stone's throw from warfare"
I have no idea what that part means; it does not follow the rules of grammar. "your jungle wheeling" should be followed by a noun because it is supposed to be part of the list of things he is damning, yet he then tries to morph it into a statement (a nonsensical one). But, if it were a statement it should be "you're" not "your" anyway.