Word: refugee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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For many decades, people on all sides of the color line chafed at these legal restraints on their ability to love and procreate. Even where black-white marriages were legal, these couples had to seek refuge in more tolerant black neighborhoods and raise their children as African Americans. But in...
All-house key card access would do much for the student body. One, it would make it a great deal easier to visit friends in neighboring houses. Instead of obsequiously asking random students to let you in to their house, students will feel more comfortable on the entire campus. Two...
Students who feel threatened late at night will be able to find refuge in house lobbies or designated entryways but will not be able to access other entryways or hallways.
Charles used an ATM foyer as a refuge. Local laws limited stays at the homeless shelter, so he went there only on the coldest nights. A waitress at a sandwich shop let him drink coffee during freezing evenings even when he soiled himself and insulted her customers. Townspeople marveled at...
It is idle to expect that artists and writers, torn from their context and milieu and dropped by the fortunes of war into a strange society, would easily continue to produce their best work. One who did was Mondrian, whose years in New York culminated in the wonderful Broadway Boogie...