Word: ymca
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Murphy had a dual career as an employee of the Boston post office and as an artist's model. John Singer Sargent, the painter and muralist, spotted him at a YMCA calisthenics class and hired him as a model...
...next-door living room. Sophie Rauschmeier is her (unlikely) name; she loathes Normal Cornell, the sexually repressed but industrious writer of the pair of roommates, who is unfortunately smitten by her looks (and smell). As the disstrous outcome of Norman's amorous gestures, Sophie loses her job at a YMCA swimming pool, and actually goes to work for the magazine--falling in love with Andy Hobart, the more conventionally attractive radical, not only Norman's publisher but his best friend. En route to the final resolution, Norman becomes paranoid and Andy embittered, through Sophie remains throughout just plain Sophie...
...walked over and found his reluctance lying there on the floor," Brautigan writes. "I put it in my pocket. I took it home with me and shaped it into this, having nothing better to do with my time." A character in another story, "Homage to the San Francisco YMCA," liked good verse. "One day he decided that his liking for poetry could not be fully expressed in just reading poetry or listening to poets reading on phonograph records. He decided to take the plumbing out of his house and completely replace it with poetry, and so he did." The poetry...
...long and distinguished career in the best liberal Catholic tradition. His almost 50 years of involvement in Catholic affairs has included administrative, liturgical, teaching, scholarly, and community oriented activities. He has or is involved with all the old-time, man-of-the-community institutions: the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the YMCA, the Boston Public Library, the Museum of Fine Arts, and Harvard. It's a long way from the fields of California or the prison at Danbury, but it is also a symbolic step out of the sanctuary, confessional, and rectory...
...country club pool behavior interfere with serious swimming and are taboo. (Why not set up the Radcliffe pool with sunlamps, coke machines, chaises longues, etc., so that it would attract people who associate swimming with dating?) Tag, king-of-the-raft, horseplay and other forms of activity appropriate in YMCA and public swimming pools are limited to Saturday morning...