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...verdant gardens and farmland, much of it a former lordly estate, the park boasts several galleries and a stunning outdoor collection of modern sculpture, including some fine Barbara Hepworths and Henry Moores. It's also home to 137 sheep, for whom Goldsworthy has built a sheepfold contain-ing a massive stone slab on which human visitors can lie to create "rain shadows." Else-where on the estate he has raised a series of dry-stone wall enclosures where giant fallen oaks hang. Paradoxically, for all the open air, it's Goldsworthy's new indoor works that are the fresher...
Think of it as an animated cartoon. Imagine the corporation as a sheepfold, its shepherds stupefied by years of prosperity and innocent of the ways of wickedness in far-off Wall Street. Now imagine a pack of wolves peering over the fence and judging that the assets gamboling behind it are tantalizingly undervalued by the marketplace...
Rent-a-sheep requests have been pouring in from all over Germany, and Doris is thinking of expanding the business by selling partnerships to individuals. For them, the sheepfold could be a tax shelter: Germany levies no taxes on individuals' capital gains from the sale of assets (other than real estate) held for six months, which is just about as long as Gesellschaft fur Schafsverleih plans to own its sheep. Meanwhile, Anette tries to make sure that customers protect the animals from predators of all kinds. She turned down one customer located near a community of Turks...
...ordination, Daniel wrote a controversial essay?now a minor classic ?characterizing the priesthood as a "sheepfold for sheep" unless it was informed by experience in the world. Both Berrigans doted on the postwar French Catholic avantgarde, and a year in France during the heyday of the worker-priests radicalized Daniel further. Later, at LeMoyne College in Syracuse, he became a rigorous preacher of Gospel poverty, prodding his students to "get poor," urging friends to sell their homes and move into the ghetto, sending students down South, where brother Philip was teaching in an all-black New Orleans high school...
...years he has saved up his pennies, and now at last has accumulated a small flock of mortgaged sheep in the hills behind Orgosolo. One day, home from the grazing grounds, he finds three armed men in his hut and a huddle of stolen hogs in his sheepfold...