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...Hussein not become a threat to our own economic aims, we would never have heard of his brutality, and the U.S. government would have gone on giving him money. Yet as soon as Israel wants a loan to shelter refugees that no other country will take in, the president begins his moral posturing and the rest of America follows suit...
...Shelter is a favorite image of Puryear's. For Beckwourth, 1980, presents a kind of solid wooden hogan with an ovoid top plastered in cracked mud, recalling both the primitive hut and the origins of the pendentive dome. (Jim Beckwourth is a figure often invoked by Puryear's sculpture. The freed son of a white man and a black slave woman, he served as a guide for various Western expeditions in the early 19th century, fought in the Mexican War and was at one point made a chief of the Crow Indians -- a symbol of multicultural America if ever there...
...half white and half black, a wooden effigy of the track of the sun. Especially there is the delicately ordered construction based on a nautilus shell, Bower, 1980. Its wooden web is as precise as the skeleton of an aircraft wing and yet is imbued with a promise of shelter: one would be happy to crawl inside it and rest. With this piece, Puryear's desire for an eloquence of craft and his interest in the metaphorical relations between architecture and sculpture were fulfilled early. He seems to be that contemporary rarity, a wholly integrated artist -- in short, the real...
...operation for student-run PBHA, an advertisement agency for the University's commitment to public service and a support operation for the HAND program. All for the price of $117,000 plus the $10,000 for HAND and the $96,000 for the house public service tutors. A homeless shelter I work at could run for five years with...
...Yenching Library women's bathroom, a debate on lesbianism ends with an attack on bourgeois society. "Wise up Harvard! Sexuality is the recreation of the leisure classes. The poor and homeless are too constrained by fatigue and lack of shelter to make sexual preference such an important...