Word: shelters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the capital, the overgrown, colonial-era plantation was being used as a staging ground for what the allies feared would be an assault on Saigon. In I Corps, the 3rd Marine Division completed their eight-week-old sweep through the A Shau Valley, long a Communist-infested staging shelter. From the forested slopes of this valley pour a steady stream of Communist troops bound either for the imperial capital of Hue or for Danang, the nation's second largest city, whose outskirts were penetrated during the current offensive and which has been shelled repeatedly. Despite some damage...
...signed this petition failed to realize the racist nature of "An End to Urban Violence." They should read the prospectus, which calls for course students to plan strategies for counter forces for use in Black communities in rebellion, to redesign "spatial relations" to make it harder to seek shelter and easier to move troops, to find a "critical mass" population density that might lead to violence, that sees "riots" as emotional outlets, and Black people as basically incapable of solving their own problems. And the results of these "intellectual investigations" were to be presented to a "limited, invited audience...
...Francis of Assisi said: "If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow...
...Hermetic Shelter. To begin with, he is not typically an alcoholic. Of the Bowery's population, only one-third qualify as heavy drinkers-a category embracing but not restricted to the alcoholic-while another third are moderate drinkers. The rest either drink sparingly or not at all. Even in Skid Row's inverted social hierarchy-the farther they fall, the bigger they are-the alcoholic is something of a social outcast, scorned and rejected by Skid Row's characteristic drinking fraternity, the bottle gang...
...that Skid Row is not the end of the road in the usual despairing sense. Its residents do not fall there, but actively seek it out because it has what they want: odd jobs without purpose or future, a community that is permissive to the point of indifference, hermetic shelter from the incessant demands of the larger society. "The Skid Rower does nothing," says Wallace. "He just is. He is everything that all the rest...