Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Historians, amateur as well as professional, promptly began to spot gaping holes in Oggi's yarns, which were apparently designed to glorify Mussolini and embarrass the democratic politicians who now govern Italy. The English phrases attributed to Prosemaster Winston Churchill were so wooden that some other newspapers ridiculed them as "Berlitz-learned English." In one letter, "Churchill" referred to himself as Prime Minister at a time when he was still only First Lord of the Admiralty...
...what he thought was a wooden floor. Then he closed his eyes to increase their sensitivity. He smelled a strange perfume drifting up through the hole. It was something like incense, something like fragrant wood. When El Malakh opened his eyes, he saw planks dovetailed neatly together, coils of linen rope, and oars with spearshaped blades. Then he knew what he had found: a funeral ship to carry the soul of a Pharaoh to heaven...
...spare time, he retreats to his isolated camp in southern New Hampshire, where, ten miles from the nearest town, he hunts birds, skis with his wife, and makes wooden tables and cabinets in an elaborate shop. So good is his cabinet making that he was able to give his daughter a dining room table as a wedding present...
Those individuals who do go to Bard find themselves in the midst of an extra-ordinarily beautiful campus. But Bard presents an unimpressive physical plant. The girls' dormitories and one of the boys dormitories are excellent, both roomy and comfortable. Most of the men, however, live in barracks--wooden structures put up temporarily after the war and never replaced. The science building is very fine, but the old structure where most of the classes are held and where most administration offices are located is horrible. An offensive odor pervades the place and the stairs creak menacingly. The theatre is miniscule...
...oldest buildings on campus, behind a heavy wooden door with a sign saying, "President's Office, Walk in Without Knocking," with his feet on the desk, sits the man who is chiefly concerned with these and other problems about Bard's future.--James Case, Bard's president. On his desk are several books, but one especially--"Causes of Public Unrest in Education" arrests the visitors eye and seems in a sense to be a reflection of Bard College...