Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...authors of Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity take a more optimistic view of the problems of world hunger. In her bestselling Diet for a Small Planet, Frances Moore Lappe took the position that Americans must learn to sacrifice as individuals, to reduce their consumption levels in an effort to spread thin resources around. In Food First, however, she and her co-author Joseph Collins examine the root causes of world hunger. Their conclusions are both startling and persuasive...
...alike follow the Sikh traditions of not cutting their hair and bearing symbolic daggers, combs and bracelets. Ashram members rise at 3:30 a.m. to practice yoga and meditate, sometimes while staring at a picture of Bhajan. They often work twelve hours a day on low salaries and skimpy diets at 3HO small businesses, such as landscaping companies, shoe stores, and quality vegetarian restaurants. Full-fledged initiates follow Bhajan's every dictum on diet, medical nostrums, child rearing, even orders to marry total strangers. Guru Terath Singh Khalsa, who is his lawyer and spokesman, says that Bhajan...
Jordan's critique set off a chorus of complaints by black leaders. Joseph Lowery, chairman of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, charged sardonically that Carter had somehow "lost his sense of urgency, as if he's more interested in a balanced budget than a balanced diet." Benjamin Hooks, who was inaugurated last week as director of the NAACP, urged Carter to balance the budget by means of a "full economy, generating more jobs, more sales and more money." Said Nancy Jefferson, executive director of Chicago's Midwest Community Council, a black self-help organization: "There were lots...
...slapped LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT stickers on their bumpers. Some observers have disconsolately described the decade as the "fragmented '70s." That may mean only that the period, unlike the '60s, lacks a single theme or story?no continuing drama for Americans like Viet Nam. Journalists addicted to a diet of disaster find the present moment disconcerting. One Washington journalist was even moved to complain: "There hasn't been a decent story out of the White House in two weeks." The time is very much like Jimmy Carter?hard to figure...
...Atkins' Superenergy Diet, Atkins...