Word: shelteredness
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Bush faces a far different challenge: overcoming the impression that he has never been truly tested, that he knows little about the earthy struggles of daily living and that he has been sheltered from life's hard knocks. Where Dole projects a brooding quality, Bush sometimes exudes a disconcerting shallowness...
I began reading your article entitled "Anti-Rape Counseling Planned" (February 10). If I wasn't lingering over my Salada tea I might not have bothered to read it at all. After all, rape? For me, the word connotes something so barbaric and underwordly that I have trouble connecting it...
And of course, Mother Ginger with her many toddlers sheltered under the breadth of her skirt. The under-two-feeters ran around the playgroundstage and paused to dance. Clap, turn backs to one another, and bump. Clap and bump.
The state doesn't offer enough shelters for the mentally ill, and those it does provide often just offer "3 hots and a cot"--no professional psychiatric help, no career training, no personalized attention. Sheltered patients may get periodic check-ups and medication, but that isn't enough to turn...
WE RETURN to the sheltered environment of Harvard, looking ahead to the Real World with confidence that our integrity will sustain us. But the ideals we nurture here have a hard life out there.