Word: ymca
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...writes Nobel-prizewinning Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn in a postscript to his new novel, August 1914, which was published last week in Russian by the small YMCA Press in Paris. It is the only one of his books, aside from One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, that Solzhenitsyn has agreed to have published in the West...
...West, he got in touch with his Zurich lawyer, Fritz Heeb. He wanted to avoid what had happened to his other books: Western publishers scrambled to print competing editions, often in execrable translations. To establish copyright in Solzhenitsyn's name in France, Heeb quietly authorized the small YMCA Press (so named because it was founded by a member of the association, Dr. John Mott, in 1921) to publish August 1914 in Russian...
Tully, the older of the fighting pair, fights twice in the course of the novel, first with Munger in a YMCA gym and then with a shrewd Mexican before a complacent chicano crowd. Between thesetwo smallest of small-time bouts, he reflects on his past and present rootlessness, and satisfies his need for some kind of transcendent reality by reading pulp movie-fan magazines. The variety of his life is the variety of fleabag hotels the city of Stockton offers him. Drinking, desperately trying to love a neurotic lush, flashing back to times when he could have been a real...
...been here before; on grade school field trips to the Museum of Science and Industry, to visit Northwestern in my senior year in high school, to spend a week in the downtown YMCA during the Democratic National Convention in 1968, and now a year later for the opening of the Chicago conspiracy trial and the Weatherman Days of Rage. "Nobody in that courtroom was the same person he had been thirteen months before. Nobody had the same intentions," Tony Lukas writes in his new book Notes on the Chicago Conspiracy Trial. Certainly not myself, who with a voyeuristic journalistic curiosity...
...been for the trip to Washington, even some of us who were aware of the game's tradition might have gone to that contest just for the sake of making a trip to Providence. There you can see the Peter Pan Bus Terminal, the room in the YMCA where Rogers Williams College students learn math, and the Beef and Bun. In fact, Cap'n Crunch recommends a trip to Providence today, at about...