Word: ymca
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Gloomy spirits seemed to penetrate the moods of even the holiday's spectators. Mount said that as she rode the T from her job at the YMCA in Central Square in full costume, hardly anyone gave her a second look...
...just Irish Americans. Most of my campers come from single parent families, many with a history of abuse and addiction. However, their behavior reveals little about their troubled backgrounds. My seven- and eight-year olds are as rambunctious and aggravating, amazing and innocent, as those from any suburban YMCA camp. Yet most of our junior counselors, teens from the community, struggle in school and have regular meetings with their probation officers...
...installation ceremony ends, and the bands strike up. Lind throws herself gamely into the bluegrass and polkas. Then as evening falls, a deejay comes on. And the newly invested dean, beaming, boogies down to the Village People's YMCA...
...book by showing the people of an imagined town "putting on their costumes," that is, getting dressed for another day in their lives. The final story is called Dressing Down and reverses the procedure of donning clothes for the sake of identity. A man remembers his grandfather, a respectable YMCA director who spent every July at a nudist camp that he established on the shore of a nearby lake. His wife, the narrator's grandmother, strongly disapproves: "Naturism was not her nature. Nudity was the cross she bore." Shields portrays the quarrel between these two as gently comic but also...
NEEDING MOM AND DAD You might not think teens would admit to needing their parents. But in keeping with their unpredictable reputation, 21% of 12- to 15-year-olds surveyed by the YMCA said they wished their busy parents had more time to spend with them. They listed the shrinking time their families spend together as one of their top concerns. In the same survey, 47% of fathers and 38% of mothers said they were trying to find more time to spend with their kids...