Word: dweller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...number of unmarried men, socially and biologically at loose ends, increases toward a city's core. And as urbanization increases, the group control of a homogeneous society-symbolized by the U.S. back fence-disappears. Standards of group and personal behavior break down together when the anonymous city dweller has the "liberty" to drift into unconventionality and excess which are frequently the forerunners of mental crackup...
...world's 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...
...Filipino is a stubborn gambler even for the Orient, an unbusinesslike dweller in the Far East of shrewd traders. His wife handles the money of the household, because otherwise he gives it away, loses it, bets it, or spends it. According to ancient tradition he takes in his kinspeople when they are in trouble, unworriedly moves in on them when in trouble himself. Americans think he is indolent, but his passivity "is a combination of natural dignity and a protest against unnecessary haste...
...Gently now, my uncle said. Let no harm come to this strange dweller on my land...
...Nimblest of the three disturbers of the Schaefer peace was Shack-Dweller Henry Frees, a onetime acrobat, who once used an $800 settlement for an injury to his arm to run for mayor of Belleville, Ill. He lost both the $800 and the election, went back to his shack. Emerging as a Congressional candidate, Mr. Frees stood on his head while he made campaign speeches, promised, if elected, to do backflips up the Capitol steps. His resounding advice to Congressman Schaefer: "If he doesn't play golf I think he should ought to learn. In case fishing...