Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...research he can; if someone else misuses the results of his work, that is not his business. After the class, the students filed out of the hall, glad that the lectures had ended and reading period was to begin, yet some felt rather uneasy about their position in the shelter of academic ivy. Would they be as dispassionate as their gentle professor if it were their land and food supply that was being ruined by an intruder's technology? And what of these chemicals' ability to induce birth defects even in the very low concentrations found in affected drinking water...
Leon Russell made his contribution, not in the form of paying respect to an old master, but by involving himself with an emerging talent, Freddy King. King's career has the momentum to go a long way; Russell's influence on their first project, Freddy King Getting Ready (Shelter), is a healthy combination of supervision and modesty. Co-produced by Russell and Don Nix, the album offers an excellent selection of material and powerful interplay between King's biting lead guitar and vocals, Russell's distinctive piano, and Duck Dunn's bass. Freddy King's licks have been compared...
Such programs are, indeed, deficient and may be frequently criticized on their own terms for not doing enough. However, human liberation requires the liberation of each individual from material insecurity. Every man and woman must be able to eat, work, clothe himself, and find suitable shelter before spiritual liberation becomes meaningful. The racial minorities did not render themselves poor. If their material well-being must be assured. If Mark advocates human liberation let him join the fight against injustice as it has been perpetrated against the minorities. He should not resort to libertarian abstractions and perversions of humanitarianism...
...I.R.A., in fact, thrives as much on failures as successes: martyrs who are caught in the act are as useful to the cause as terrorists who get away. Unlike the abortive campaign of 1956-62, when many Ulster Catholics refused to aid or shelter the gunmen, the present guerrilla war has the overwhelming sympathy of Northern Ireland's Catholic minority. Thanks to the one-sided enforcement of the internment laws and the massive presence of the British troops, the Catholics are now almost wholly alienated from Stormont. The only question is whether it will be the I.R.A. or the nonviolent...
LEON RUSSELL WITH THE SHELTER PEOPLE (Shelter). A high-water mark in Delta rock, by the noted bayou frog and a virtuosic choir of croakers...