Word: shelterer
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This much is certain: oranges are freezing in Florida, winter wheat on the parched Midwestern plains is threatened by drought, schools are closed in Boston because of natural gas shortages, heatless New York City residents are being forced to seek shelter in municipally heated armories, and barges are running aground as the water level drops in the less-mighty-than-usual Mississippi. Anywhere one looked, it was too cold or too hot, and nearly everywhere...
Only two ago, a tidal wave of Vietnamese refugees seemed to have engulfed all of Southeast Asia. Arriving in frail fishing craft in the waters of Thailand, Malaysia and other countries that proved incapable of or unwilling to shelter all of them, they were known as the boat people. They seemed to be the ultimate casualties of the U.S. defeat in Viet Nam. Peasants and fisherfolk, small shopkeepers and traders, as well as former soldiers of Saigon's army, they fled the oppressive Hanoi regime in increasing numbers. Soon the exodus was joined by hundreds of thousands of ethnic...
...rambling soon becomes coherent as he explains his theory of man's three brains: the "reptilian" brain which programs man for his needs for food, shelter, and copulation and the general survival instinct; the "affective" brain which contains the memory and responds appropriately to pleasure and pain, reward and punishment; and the "associative" brain which connects events from the past and enables us to use language. Laborit doesn't really like this third brain, also known as the cerebral cortex, because it allows humans to be programmed by society; it gives us the power to create "excuses, reasons, and alibis...
...naturally out of the biographical narrative. Whenever Kaplan does choose to intervene, he enhances his portrait with appropriate comparisions, or soft-spoken but astute analysis. In one case, Kaplan contrasts a friendship between Whitman and an intimate acquaintance, Peter Doyle, to Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in the cabmen's shelter in Ulysses, and Nathanial West's own "Peter Doyle" holding hands with Miss Lonely hearts at a speakeasy...
...nursing homes. But just now, the baby boomers, in their early-to mid-30s, are grappling for the first time with life's serious, mundane and (in many cases) long postponed business: trying to discover living arrangements more permanent than mere roommating, finding ways to raise children, shelter them, nourish them, educate them, serve as models for them and otherwise turn them into the next generation - a hopeful and sometimes painful drudgery that is invariably hard on narcissists. The aging baby boomers are now daddies and mommies with careers to build and all kinds of adult banalities to face...