Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Opening day found 25 "customers" lunching at white tables decorated with carnations, and volunteers serving as waiters. The first diners gave the cafe five stars. Said Oscar Shears, who lives in a shelter: "It kind of makes you feel like a person again...
...family neighborhoods. That has not stopped people from torching homes for the mentally handicapped in middle-class cities such as Hewlett, N.Y., and Ventura, Calif. Even poor people do not necessarily want to live near their troubled brethren. In New York City's predominantly Hispanic East Harlem, a homeless shelter for 48 families was withdrawn in January after intense opposition...
...should pay the state to house its criminals. In each instance, the principle of community responsibility for the greater good was paramount. "One of the few things we deprive our middle class of is the opportunity to serve," says Ethicist Gaylin. Whether the problem is a waste dump, a shelter for the homeless or an AIDS hospice, an equitable and beneficial solution, however imperfect, is likely to be one that the community has had a strong hand in shaping...
...with the upright pride of the pine or maple but with a gnarled and twisted strength that implies the stoic wisdom of many gales survived. And it flowers every spring, with a glowing white fragrance that attracts the inquiries of the honeybee. Once its leaves are out, it provides shelter for the larks and thrushes that sing from its branches. In due time, the fading flowers turn into apples, offering a thousand fulfillments: apple pie, apple cake, applesauce, apple cider, apple butter, apple jelly, apple dumplings, apple tarts, apple pandowdy. Cut into pieces, the apple tree can be carpentered into...
Randi has never married. "I was too good an escape artist," he explains. Over the years, however, he has given shelter to young aspiring magicians, taking them in as apprentices and serving as a foster parent. "Kids keep showing up at my door with knapsacks on their backs," Randi says, "offering to work for nothing if I help train them." Today he shares his secluded, cluttered Florida house with his cat Charlie and Jose Alvarez, 20, his latest protege. It was Alvarez who, in a dramatic appearance at the Opera House in Sydney last March, convinced many Australians that...