Word: shelterer
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...markets for their goods are well-nigh gone. Down at Luluabourg, once the prosperous commercial center of Kasai province, only two shops in the European section remain open-a jeweler and a hardware dealer. Everything else is closed along the main street, where the local Africans doze in the shelter of over hanging sidewalk roofs, occasionally rising to walk out into the drizzle and urinate on the sidewalk...
...leaves inscribed in an unknown language and left by an unknown race in a lunar crevice one million years ago. The moon is unlikely to have such objects on it, but it may hide things that are just as startling. Mars should be even richer in surprises. It may shelter subtle kinds of life, or relics of life, that no instrument would appreciate. Voyages to Mars will always be unsatisfactory until men report what they see there...
...Architecture provides the corporal and psychic shelter of the man of today," Giedion declared. But the straight-line styles of Bay-Ridge and split-level architecture are inadequate expressions of "the many-sided nature of man's inner life." These styles, he continued, represent a tendency to escape doubt and uncertainty by attaching oneself to superficialities without solving basic problems...
...slashing narrative, in which almost every conceivable human circumstance has been dramatized, but one with obvious hazards for the modern reader. The first is the scale and simplicity of the Homeric world. The whole thing is really a squabble over food, shelter and women, operating within codes of conduct mysterious to members of an industrial society, codes the like of which exist today probably only in the yet un-detribalized parts of Africa. But it is not merely the scale of life-where a man's wealth could be counted on the hoof or his quality measured in whether...
...buyers in the Doremus development at Thousand Oaks since the shelter offer was announced, a surprising 20 have ordered shelters. Doremus is planning a new subdivision, will offer bomb shelters with those houses...