Word: regimens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...personal level, his chronicles of daily life in prison, his regimen of self-education there, and the account of his romance with his white female lawyer Beverly Axelrod are both eloquent and moving. It is she, in fact, who strikes the most hopeful and perceptive note in this book. "Your hatred is large," she writes to him in a letter, "but not nearly so vast as you sometimes imagine; it can be used, but it can also be soothed and softened...
...most students would rather gamble on the uncertainties of the draft than join cadet programs, which include at least two years' active duty as a military officer. Besides, the current college generation takes an anti-Establishment view that scoffs at polished buttons and stiff-necked discipline. A military regimen has become an unappealing burden to add to academic chores...
...living heart-transplant patient. With Surgeon Christiaan Barnard looking on from the doorway, and Wife Elaine at his elbow, Blaiberg took his first breath of fresh air after 74 days in germ-free isolation, then walked to a limousine that carried him home. Ahead lay a careful, publicity-free regimen at his apartment in the suburb of Wynberg, with no visitors for a month, no telephone calls and thrice-weekly examinations by Barnard and his team. He will pass the time, said Blaiberg, beginning a book on his medical adventure...
...program nearly collapsed in its first year. Restive students, as well as some of the staff, revolted at the tough regimen and Tussman's rigid concept of a meaningful curriculum. Demanding the right to shape courses to their own interests, some students pleaded for an emphasis on Eastern rather than Western culture. Tussman acidly answered that a student cannot "pick up the wisdom of a foreign culture if he doesn't understand his own." Many of the students took to introspection with drugs, turned up in class turned on-which infuriated Tussman, who feared his project could...
Houphouët maintains tight press and radio censorship but is relatively gentle with his political opponents. When University of Abidjan students organized a march on his palace, protesting his conservative policies, Houphouët had the demonstrators taken to a military camp and put on a stiff regimen of calisthenics until they meekly asked to return to classes. Older opponents are summoned to Houphouët's plantation 170 miles from the capital and given a friendly, fatherly talk-and sometimes a government appointment or a case of Houphouët's favorite champagne...