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...debonair, autumnal 65, the Duke still thrives on 20-hour days that begin at noon and end at dawn after a night of composition at the piano. He keeps up his composing regimen even on tour, and many recent additions to his enormous output are directly inspired by his travels. The bridge between his early Bird of Paradise and his recent Little African Flower spans more than 1,000 compositions, among them such triumphs as Mood Indigo, Solitude and Black, Brown and Beige-and though his form has expanded radically, his substance has never drifted far from jazz. "Le jazz...
...walk across a room. He can also rise from a chair using just the cane, and his speech is showing improvement. Now in Hyannis Port, he has spent the last three weeks at Philadelphia's Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential doing a carefully mapped-out regimen of exercises. In the end, though, it was a question of not giving up hope...
...Pangs. The WAVE, like the men, was put on a regimen of nothing but water and vitamins. Like them, she was kept in the hospital and watched closely and constantly for the most minute changes in body chemistry. Like the men, she was allowed out of bed, but was permitted little physical activity. Sex did make a difference, at least in this one case. The ex-WAVE stuck to her more-than-Spartan regime, with no solid food at all, for no less than 117 days. She lost 116 Ibs. The runner-up was a legless man who had weighed...
...results were reported last fall, many obese patients got the idea that total fasting, tough as it sounds, might be the ideal way for them to lose a lot of weight. Far from it, Dr. Drenick's team now reports in the A.M.A. Journal. True enough, the drastic regimen takes off weight; the eight other men in the experiment lost 18 to 63 Ibs. after twelve to 52 days of fasting. And it is remarkably painless. The most astounding thing, say the doctors, is that after the first two to four days, none of the test subjects felt...
Peirce had received rigorous training in logic and mathematics from his father, the mathematician Benjamin Peirce. Like John Stuart Mill, he emerged from the strict regimen of paternal instruction years ahead of his contemporaries in intellectual development. Yet despite his acknowledged power and originally as a thinker, Peirce never cultivated sufficient tact or domesticity to appeal to Harvard under Eliot...