Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After more than a year of sluggishness, the housing market is expanding so rapidly that even experts who had been expecting a 1971 shelter boom are somewhat astonished. Buyers are quickly grabbing up not only new homes but also used houses, often paying just what the seller asks. The Nixon Administration has been counting on home and apartment building as a major force to help revive the U.S. economy. Housing starts fell 21% last year, to 1,463,000. The Administration prevented the drop from growing larger by giving the building industry massive injections of mortgage credit and subsidies, which...
...able political polemicist, a voracious gatherer of facts, who has written well-argued books on racism and war. Daniel is a prizewinning poet, a charismatic provocateur, who became lionized as a modern Pimpernel while the FBI chased him last summer. He eluded authorities for four months, taking shelter with 37 families in twelve cities...
...both Berrigans, a view of society as a kind of Catch-22 nightmare. Daniel had already undergone yet another radicalization while awaiting trial. On a trip to Hanoi to bring back three U.S. prisoners, he had been caught in an air raid and found himself hurtling into a shelter with a Vietnamese baby in his arms. The experience became both a scar and a poem: "In my arms, Father, in a moment's grace The Messiah of all my tears I bore, reborn, a Hiroshima child from hell...
...HAVE ALWAYS attracted men from the valley; they have been the place for free-spirited and free-thinking people throughout history. And when the world is finally joined together in technological unity, there will still be those who seek meaning and significance in a confused world. L'Abri (the shelter), located high above the Rhone in the Swiss Alps is a community of such people...
...Gimme Shelter. This is the Maysles brothers and Charlotte Zwerin's "documentary" of the Rolling Stones' American tour. They succeed to a great extent in capturing the performer who is Mick Jagger. Near the film's end, when the star performs to a violent crowd at Altamont Speedway, losing his hold on the audience and surveying a killing a few yearns from the stage, the effect is devastating. Gimme Shelter is a highly subjective film and as such should not be confused with an NBC news documentary; still, the filmmakers have shaped their materials well to make the movie they...