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Word: regimens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Whydunnit in Q-Sharp Major | 10/26/1970 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: George Plimpton: The Professional Amateur | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: George Plimpton: The Professional Amateur | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

...attend them and practice; nothing is more agreeable, and ornamental, than good music." Because soldiers might have confused rehearsals with actual calls to arms, the Continental Army set practice hours of 5 to 6 a.m. and 4 to 5 p.m. The participants at Deep River observed no such regimen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Scene: The Deep River Ancient Muster | 8/3/1970 | See Source »

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