Word: yoga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...record for cycle performances; once he performed all Bach's clavier works in twelve recitals; he has also given complete Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert cycles. To preserve his vitality, he keeps to the Hay diet (separating starches and proteins), eats fruit like a jungle dweller, does Yoga exercises, sleeps ten hours a night. Says he: "A musician owes it to his audiences not to have off days...
...principle of the thing is, it seems, not to see into the future but to induce self-hypnosis. A quarter of an hour of self-hypnosis is worth eight hours of sleep from a mental point of view according to the youthful yoga...
...spring. Nova spent three years in college (at California College of Agriculture) and was serious-minded in a way that reminded some people of Arch-Boxer Gene Tunney. This slender analogy had forced the odds on Louis down to 13 to 5 last week. Nova's studies in yoga also made him something of an unknown quantity, since fight fans do not know how seriously to take yoga, or how seriously Lou took it himself...
...question was not whether yoga had improved Nova's stance, balance and clumsy footwork. It was whether age (27) and constant fighting (six times this year) had slowed up the magnificent fighting machine that was Louis...
This time the challenger for Joe Louis' crown is a student of yoga, 26-year-old Lou Nova who has boasted that he is a Man of Destiny, that he will knock out the Champion with his "cosmic punch" (straight from the seventh vertebra, center of balance), and the aid of his "dynamic stance," his controlled breathing...