Word: woodcocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loveliest, most self-revealing story appears near the end. Birds of a Feather is an ode to the woodcock, that plucky, reclusive little game bird of the uplands. Preparatory to a hunt in upstate New York, Humphrey reads up on the bird. "He gets curiouser and curiouser. His brain is upside down. His ears are in front of his nose . . . Like the woodcock, I too am an odd bird; I know I am, and I would change if I could, because being odd is uncomfortable, but, no more than the woodcock can, I can't, not anymore...
When the group switched from using anon-Harvard writer to Mark Woodcock, who graduatedfrom Harvard in 1965, the plans really started tocome together, remembers Walker. "We started toopen up thoughts and ideas on how we could bothreflect on history modestly--not to bebraggadicio--yet keep the evententertaining and one that would be a celebration...
...past decade, organized labor in this country has steadily lost ground. The number of unionized workers has shrunk to barely a third of the labor force in an economy which has become overwhelmingly service-oriented. Following the tone set by former UAW president Leonard Woodcock and his successor, Douglas Fraser, prevailing wisdom has had it that in times of economic stress labor must cooperate with management wherever possible. This represents a strong departure from American labor's history: for years, the worst accusation that could be directed at union representatives was that they were "company men" or "in bed with...
...Ambassador to China Leonard Woodcock called a rare press conference of his own in Peking the following day to blast Reagan. Charged Woodcock: "To endanger the carefully crafted relationship between the People's Republic and the U.S. is to run the risk of gravely weakening the American international position at a dangerous time." Appointed by Jimmy Carter to his post in January 1979, Woodcock stressed that he was issuing the warning on his own and had not cleared the statement with either the White House or the State Department, a claim backed up by the Administration. Woodcock...
...poem of celebration: "We are your people,/ Millions of us greet you/ On this your birthday/ Mother of our Queen." This defiantly wooden psalming was merely average Betjeman. Years ago, the death of King George V inspired the young Betjeman to a soaring metaphysical conception: "Spirits of well-shot woodcock, partridge, snipe/ Flutter and bear him up the Norfolk sky." Over the years, Sir John's verses have aroused almost demented indignation, but the laureate amiably dismisses his critics as "silly asses who don't understand poetry." He is partly right. Most of it, almost by some subconscious...