Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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YMCA officials bristle at owners' charges. Since its establishment in the U.S. in 1851, they contend, the Y has been dedicated to the spiritual, mental and physical health of the entire community. If fancy facilities bring in more wealthy members, well and good. Their dues help support activities for the less privileged. Notes Celeste Wroblewski, spokeswoman for YMCA of the U.S.A., the Chicago headquarters of the more than 2,000 branch organization: "Collectively, Ys are the nation's largest provider of child care; 71% of the youngsters come from families with incomes of less than...
...aftermath of the ferry carnage, the decision to put such a violence- prone person back on the streets outraged observers, officials and doctors alike. New York City Mayor Ed Koch ordered his mental-health commissioner to investigate the procedures that were followed from the time Gonzalez was taken to Presbyterian to the time he was arrested...
While benefiting thousands of people, these policies have led to drastically scarce bed space for mental patients, swollen numbers of disturbed homeless people roaming the streets of America's cities, and forbidding legal constraints against forced institutionalization. In Onalaska, Wis., last year, a 30-year-old man shot to death a priest, a lay minister and a church custodian during a mass. He had been released from a Michigan mental-health institution, where he had been committed after several prior assaults. But Wisconsin's laws and those of many other states would not allow him to be involuntarily committed...
When the Fangs arrive in China, East meets West and, as expected, both learn a bit from each other. Fang replaces his jogging with Mr. Chao's workout, which is as much mental as phsyical; Lili adopts some of Paul's arrogance, to the dismay of her parents; and Paul remembers some of his childhood ping-pong expertise, eventually going head to head with Lili's beau in an area youth tournament...
...British journalist's trip to Africa to make a docudrama about his parents--a diplomat and his young artist wife whose well-meant meddling provoked a long-ago international incident. The journalist's unveiling of how colonist and native took advantage of peculiarities in the other's mental makeup provides the revelatory pleasures of a mystery. Dickinson also manages to evoke the evolution of feminism, the modern Islamization of animist tribes, the rise of media hegemony and the fall of the British empire. His descriptions are extraordinarily vivid, his characters plausibly selfish and self-deluding, and his climax...