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...continuing on his own after the company's president changes his mind. No one can persuade Davis to stop. He refuses to accept rides-even in elevators-and generally sheds material and cultural encumbrances. Mostly he sleeps wherever night catches him, of ten outdoors, though occasionally he takes shelter with gypsies or nomads...
...sunshine with clouds that López Rodó's planners had not counted on. The country is counting the cost of rapid urbanization. Hopeful peasants are forsaking such dirt-poor regions as Andalusia or Estremadura for the industrial cities, where there is scarcely enough new housing to shelter even a fraction of them. Tourists too have paid part of the price of Spain's new prosperity. Stretches of the sunny coastlines are now so grotesquely overbuilt that they have become little more than ugly concrete jungles; the famed Costa del Sol is referred to sarcastically as "Miami...
...Cadets do have their escapes. One is flirtation walk, it narrow path on the campus which is unofficially off-limits to officers, and as such is the only place at West Point where Cadets dare touch members of the opposite sex, and which has also been known to shelter many it liquor or dope party. Another escape route is athletics, which consume a major portion of each Cadet...
...natural environment of man--sun, air, heat, water, and shelter from wind and rain--are laid out in such a way that one's body can get out of its discordant entanglement with the anti-primary-sensory environment in which we live," Laing explained...
...most criticized aspect of rescue missions is the almost universally required attendance at worship services, a sort of sing-for-your-supper attitude But mission directors insist that their spiritual work is far more important than the food and shelter they offer "Christ spoke to 5,000 people all day before he fed them," says Jerry Dunn. "If a man is really hungry we will feed him, but we don't apologize for requiring attendance at worship. If we don't give them a foundation to build their lives on, we give them nothing...