Word: breath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Drawing a deep breath, the fast-growing University of California at Los Angeles announced last week that nearly all its resident men and women will now live together. As if drawing up plans for San Quentin prison, it promised parents that it would aim for "maximum security...
...typical Marquand hero reaches the point of no return when he draws his first breath. In later years, during the inevitable, muted crises, he will ask himself where he took the decisive turn. Was it the school he went to? The wife he married, or did not marry? The job he took? His creator, one of the best social novelists the U.S.has produced, considered these questions vital. Again and again, he said that men are shaped by their environment, and no writer could match him in describing the environments that cradled or smothered, polished or abraded, buoyed or drowned...
...called chlorophyll in toothpaste, chewing gum, etc., alleged to deodorize the breath, is a chemically altered natural extract, usually copper chlorophyllin...
...buying bikinis only for wear in semi-seclusion-penthouse terraces, backyards-but that men were trying to persuade their wives or girl friends to try bikinis in a wider variety of landscapes. Nonetheless, models and Europeans continued to be the stores' best sort of bikini customers. The forbidding breath of Salem could still be felt on most American beaches...
...Breathing & Faith. At first a Westerner may feel ridiculous, he admits, standing on his head and blocking his nostrils alternately while he breathes. But in a short time he will feel the physical benefits of the practice ("a general unwinding, a euphoria") as well as the spiritual ones. After ten minutes in the Pole position, followed by another ten in the Full Backwards Bend or Reintegration position, "when breathing has become so slow and deep that it may seem as if the breath reaches the base of the intestines . . . there is no difficulty in attaching yourself wholly to the subject...