Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they two students who were part of a culture that accepted these drugs (both were known to enjoy raves; one even wrote his senior thesis on raves), and sold only to a few friends and not for profit? Were these two (one of whom was a director of a homeless shelter) an example of the decay in our community? Or should we feel sympathy for two bright futures (one was planning to go to a top-notch grad school) potentially being destroyed because every politician wants to look tough on drugs and they were unlucky enough to be within...
...Working with the homeless has really opened my eyes to realize that many people are just a paycheck away from being homeless, too," she says...
...song and her. If there is something to frustrate the audience in this play--and there is much that is on the border between challenging originality and frustrating whimsy--it is his character. The self-conscious Other (he is a self-described "Chinaman" seeking to break stereotypes about homeless people), he mischievously implies with a quavering song that he is in on all the play's tricks, and we desperately wish he would tell...
...anti-immigrant nativist sentiment that pervaded the United States in that era-some of which bears an uncomfortable resemblance to the rhetoric of Pat Buchanan and his herd of sheep-was one reason for the reluctance to absorb the homeless refugees. Hitler's righthand propaganda czar went as far as to say "At bottom... I believe both the English and the Americans are happy that we are exterminating the Jewish riff-raff." This is certainly the conclusion he would have been led to if he was aware that Roosevelt had the ability to order a bombing of the railway lines...
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed...