Word: veneered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mechanical for me"-and so she resorted to wood, the stuff of her childhood in Maine. She began collecting stray bits and pieces from the street, from junkyards, from antique shops: scroll-sawed offcuts, bits of molding, battered planks and ribs of crates, balusters, toilet seats, sheets of split veneer, gun-stocks, dowels, finials, anything that seemed to have some character. The amassing of these things was an act of love and salvage. "I feel that what people call by the word scavenger is really a resurrection," she remarked years later. "When you do things this...
...surcharge onto term bills to fund a reconstituted student government won't buy students more decision-making power. Student government or its facsimiles has proved remarkably ineffective over the last ten years, and now the student-faculty committee investigating student governance wants to institutionalize that futility. Behind the bureaucratic veneer masking a revamped Student Assembly, chances are undergraduates will find themselves with even less input--if that is possible--into the decisions affecting this University...
...substantive question which arise from this debate was this: For whom does Mr. Gershman speak? Was he supposed to be more sympathetic of the Black underclass than the Black bourgeoisie? Or was he supposed to be the scholarly propagandist of the bourgeoisie class who clothed himself in the liberal veneer of bourgeoisie objectivity...
Leaders of Tomorrow shows people shaped little by their classes, activities, and the ostensible influences a college bears on its students. These leaders present a veneer to the world and to each other, which slowly disappears as graduation approaches, replaced by an embryonic but certain grasp of their own attitudes, feelings and opinions. Julie Carol Woods, playing Lorraine Mylan Thomas, gives up the games and poses she adopted in her tendency to be a white Black, and comes to terms with her anger at early mistreatment by whites, which previously, perhaps, she would have liked to forget...
...Epps had kept a close eye on HDNS's books then, he would have noticed the trouble in time to prevent last year's debacle. But the dean saw only the veneer: Olive was increasing subscriptions, he seemed dedicated, complaints were sporadic. True, Olive's responsibilities stretched the manager thin--aside from his administrative and academic duties. Olive used his own truck to drop papers off at delivery sites every morning at 5 a.m. But the Times official did not appear concerned; he and Olive got along well...