Word: habit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Islamic zealots, known the Committees for the Commendation of Virtue and the Condemnation of Vice, still patrol the streets outside. At prayer time these committees roam the cities and towns, ordering shops to close. Not long ago, the committees campaigned against young men who had adopted the infidel habit of letting their hair grow long. The drive backfired when a committee caught a tough Bedouin whose tribe had worn long hair for centuries. The tribesman fought back and was stabbed to death in the fight; the leader of the committee was tried, convicted and beheaded. The committees will publicly flog...
...weekend at Windsor Castle, Sarah confided, requires a suitcase of clothes?riding habit for morning, day dress for lunch, skirt for tea, long dress for dinner. A bit of formality too: she claims she always calls Charles...
...such as Rep. Joseph P. Adabbo (D-N.Y.), who five years ago were on the other side of the fence. Even more significant, however, is the apparent eagerness of many students to accept a second portent of a growing militarism: for as most major newspapers have formed the habit of noting. Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) programs, and other military-funded scholarship plans, are experiencing a renaissance at a number of major campuses. The reason seems fairly clear. Perhaps at Harvard, where post-graduate work is the almost universal rule, where there is less of a need to reach...
...Cecil Taylor Orgy begins on Thursday May 4 at 6 a.m.--an unfortunate time since the jazz pianist's five-odd fans at Harvard may all be asleep and the people who make a habit of getting up at six may not want to shatter their routine by listening to the sometimes abrasive music of one of the foremost innovators of modern jazz. (Later in the day might be a good time to get an introduction to Taylor's work...
Carter's greatest vulnerability, however, may be overseas. A President has a freer hand in foreign policy than in domestic matters, but he also has more of an opportunity to make mistakes. West European and Japanese leaders are increasingly alarmed by Carter's habit of moralizing without a proper appreciation of power realities, a tendency they feel is all the more exaggerated in one of his assistant policymakers, Andrew Young. They fear, above all, that Carter may be weakening the U.S. capacity to stand up to the still adventurous and aggressive Soviet Union. He has taken a series...