Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...LUNCHTIME on a December day in 1981, and about a dozen casually dressed young men and women are sitting around a U-shaped wooden table in Eliot House, eating a meal of beef stew, salad, and liqueur-laced icecream, served to them by a staff of two who pop in and out of an adjoining kitchen. It is one of three meals the group has each week around the table. The previous night, they donned suits and gowns for a weekly formal dinner; three days later, they will return for another informal lunch...
...floor is stacked with copies of C.N.D.'s magazine, Sanity, whose circulation has increased from 5,000 to 60,000 in a year. Up a flight of stairs, Bruce, as the monsignor is known to his associates, works at an old wooden desk. He is on the phone constantly, helping run up a $2,400 monthly bill as he talks to reporters, accepts speech invitations, consults with labor unions and coordinates activities with peace groups on the Continent. Still, the operation is not as rickety as the surroundings suggest: on the third floor is the computer that stores the names...
...Little Haiti, the neighborhood north of 36th Street in Miami. "The Haitians take care of each other as well as they can," says Fernand Cayard, owner of a local supermarket. "No one is sleeping on the streets." Jean François, a 25-year-old Haitian, shares a three-bedroom wooden frame house with 19 fellow refugees. "Everyone sleeps in shifts," explains François. "He who works gets the shift of his choice. Those who can pay help pay the rent...
Newly tightened enforcement of bank reporting laws has made it vastly more difficult to send large sums anonymously from the U.S. to Colombia, yet the money still manages to get through. Every week a Colombian air force C-130 transport plane flies to Fort Lauderdale with wooden crates containing up to $10 million from Colombia's central bank. The surplus greenbacks are being legally returned by Bogota to the Federal Reserve System in exchange for credit...
...served Mr. Stockman one whit better than the Trojan horse image, which, in spite of its essential flaw, still combines deception with dignity. So does Mr. Stockman. Chagrined now, he turns his figure of speech against himself, contending that it is he who has assumed the role of the "wooden beast without a brain." But the image is inappropriate again. Mr. Stockman is far from brainless, and hardly a beast. He has simply risked his kingdom for a metaphor...