Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...homes of two earlier, more antagonistic Harlemites are open to the public: the Morris-Jumel mansion, once the home of Aaron Burr, and Hamilton Grange, the last abode of Alexander Hamilton. Near the Grange on still posh Sugar Hill is a quiet riot of Tudor and Romanesque residences that shelter the faculty of City University. Around the corner is Harlem's favorite archival trove, Aunt Len's Doll and Toy Museum, where Lenon Holder Hoyte, 83, will show off her collection of more than 5,000 dolls...
...that characterizes the University today. With a few notable exceptions, such as last year's sit-in at the office of Law School Dean James Vorenberg '49, campus activism at Harvard usually takes the form of unglamorous, nuts-and-bolts work, be it in the union office or homeless shelter. But who can say that these types of activism are any less valid or socially productive than shutting down the University...
...Babbit related his experience of standing in line with his young son at a shelter for the homeless. When they encountered a 12-year-old kid by himself, the son turned to Babbit in amazement. His basic ideals about his nation had been shattered. The solution for the father-son duo was to return to those basic ideas, in the form of the Lincoln Memorial, which Babbit explained in Stewartesque cadence, "isn't a memorial, it's a shrine." They read the Gettysburg Address together, and psychically restored by the words of a president who had lost many elections before...
...freak." The who in this whodunit is known early in the story. Valin is more interested in precisely what happened and why, in how tenderness turned into a transaction and then to fatal abuse. The hustlers' barren backgrounds, the meat-rack bars where they work, the aging queens who shelter them, all are convincingly evoked in Stoner's impassioned journey of detection...
...council also asked the city manager to urge officials at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to donate a parcel of land to the Albany Street Alcoholic Center. The center is currently houses in a temporary shelter on land owned by MIT, but that site is threatened by university development...