Word: regimen
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...from the Army and Air Force that seek to make life in the service more bearable and attractive. It aims to meet at least in part the demands of a brighter, more restive generation of young Americans who reject the artificiality of make-work chores and spit-and-polish regimen, who want to know the why of orders and the wherefore of authority. Each officer has his own definition of the new mood, and not all approve of the change. For one who does, Major General Bernard W. Rogers, commander of the Army's 4th Infantry Division, it is simply...
...Concession to Desire. Macrobiotics can be dangerous. The diet became notorious five years ago when a 24-year-old Greenwich Village housewife named Beth Ann Simon died after losing 50 Ibs. Beth Ann had starved for nine months, rarely going off Macrobiotic Regimen No. 7 (only whole grain cereals), which is prescribed for special healing purposes and is intended to be followed for only about ten days at a time. Other fatal cases of malnutrition as well as scurvy have been traced to diet No. 7. Their yin-yang balance notwithstanding, brown rice and cereals alone are deficient not only...
...humor. In the erratic course of her last day, Lise is befriended by two other freaks who provide the author with a pretext to mock the latest fashions in absurdity. The prize example is a young man named Bill who prattles about Yin and Yang and follows a lunatic regimen that calls for three urinations and one orgasm daily...
...observes, "is the pleasures of travel, being alone, moving from one place to another, not being bedded down in my own compartment. I think people can't bear the idea of someone not being settled down, either to marriage, or to a job, or to a sort of regimen. It's mostly be, cause they're bothered exactly by that themselves...
...regimen Plimpton was in no hurry to establish was that of marriage. When he finally took the plunge-"a tremendous leap into a swimming pool of cold water," as he describes it-he almost forgot to tell the bride, who "really was," she admits, "among the last to know." Though the license had been acquired days in advance, the actual decision was not made until the morning of the wedding day itself. "He had been agonizing for a long time," explains Freddy, 29, who is blonde, green-eyed and a "knockout," in the dispassionate appraisal of one of George...