Word: habit
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Wilcox and his Committee on General Education are not in the habit of setting educational policy for the entire Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The CEP does that. The CEP has heard most of these arguments raised before by Brown and took no action to stop the course, instead sending the matter back to the department. The Soc Rel Department, naturally, is not eager to lay down rules (which would affect them too) about who should be qualified to be a section man in a course. In certain instances, Soc Rel professors may want to use persons...
...very interested in your article "Once More, Trouble in Berlin" [Feb. 21]. It was lucid and provocative; but you say, "Yakubovsky has a Btfsplkian habit of turning up just before something big happens." Who or what is "Btfsplkian?" Is it from Catch-22 or a recent novel? Please set me straight. I may not sleep for fear of Yakubovsky turning up in D.C. in some Jekyll guise. God forbid...
...fight to meet the original budgetary needs of the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, Kennedy and other Democrats decided that the time had come to rebel against the Senate's Pavlovian habit of slashing non-defense appropriations while passing military spending bills unscathed. The grim testimony presented to the "hun- ger committee" proved the validity of that position...
...reportedly involved. Almost everyone seemed to know the name of the former Cabinet minister's wife, for instance. It all stimulated memories of the "Ballets Roses" organized during the late '50s by Andre Le Troquer, at the time President of the National Assembly. Le Troquer made a habit of wrapping nubile young girls in antique carpets and delivering the bundles to aging revelers. But that was a long time past. The choicest scandal is always the present scandal, and in Parisian salons there was a delicious feeling that the "serious mutual insult" cited in the Delon divorce might...
...that Parr remarried at the age of 120 and had children by his second wife. Teb Sharmat, a lively farmer in the Caucasus, took a third wife-who was 50-when he was in his 90s. He explained that he did not want to get out of the habit. Some time before he died at 94, Bernard Berenson confided to his diary: "Only in what might be called my old age have I become aware of sex and the animal in woman." William Butler Yeats, who finally married at 52, was well into his 70s before he began trumpeting...