Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Timothy Manning of Los Angeles, must recognize that "it has no political support in many places" and must depend on persuasion rather than power. Said Manning: "Remember the old Aesop fable about the contest between the sun and the wind over who could force the man to remove his coat? The wind nearly beat him to death, but he only clung on more tightly. Then the sun warmed him a bit, and he removed the coat. That is what the church must do in this era-change people through warmth...
...place, rather than the place itself. Doors opening by 'magic' if you touch but one of them. Other doors swinging food in, as the mantle quietly slips wine bottles up ... He had a Connecticut Yankee's engineering mind inside a Southern gentleman's frock coat. This superficially clashes with the popular image of him as a vague idealist. But that is what saves the image. He is the idealist as practical man-one who can make a plow or play a fiddle, though he was not 'practical' in the tawdry and capitalist sense...
...necktie is as supererogatory as those little belts and buckles that used to adorn the backs of men's trousers. The tie has no function except to clean eyeglasses, and even that it does badly. It makes as much sense as the grenade loops on a trench coat, or perhaps even less, since the man in the trench coat can at least carry grenades if he wishes...
...garrote, a necktie can serve to restrain and discipline. That, at least, is the theory behind having little boys in private schools wear them; it doesn't always work. Neckties also represent a gesture of respect. A lawyer always advises his client to appear in court wearing a coat and tie. It shows that you have the deference to make yourself uncomfortable. Several years ago, a Florida judge cited a lawyer for contempt of court when the lawyer showed up wearing a gold medallion around his neck instead...
...about the unbankerly new Federal Reserve Board chief. Most of it squared with the impression that Taber had got during his first meeting with Miller, just after he took office in March. "It was disarming," he recalls. "He was running around the solemn corridors of the Fed with his coat off, tossing out ideas on fighting inflation and otherwise behaving unlike the typical wary central banker...