Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the several hundred people who are expected to attend some part of the marathon concert will not be charged admission, concert organizers will ask for donations for Project Bread and the Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless, according to Clark M. Pratt '87, supervisor of the University Lutheran Homeless Shelter...
...University shelter, along with Harvard's Freshman Urban and Hunger Action programs, has been planning the event since late September. More than 20 Harvard students have been involved in the project...
Though the textbooks are part of a reading series used by 15,000 school districts, this first federal ruling to shelter school children from educational materials is a landmark not for the precedent it might set for schools across the land. Rather, it is important precisely because the ruling specifically limits its application to this particular fundamentalist group's complaint. The decision was not so much a ruling as an exception to the rule. The court seems to have abandoned its function of establishing...
...first double-take, calling secular humanism a religion seems a contradiction in terms. Here the fundamentalists, of all people, have made "secular" and "religious" interchangeable ideas, rather than antonyms. By putting them on a par, the fundamentalists betray their real agenda: not just sheltering their religious beliefs, but building a shelter of intolerance against a whole range of other values and social practices...
...shouldn't the fundamentalist parents shelter their children? To quote Frost out of context, "Our children's imaginations have to be bounded." But what happens when the state--or a church or a group of parents--tries to shackle imagination...