Word: habit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have nothing to do with mundane arguments over their lack of right-handed power-hitting. It doesn't bother me that Joe Morgan should and will become "The Sporting News" MVP, even though Greg Luzinski may be more deserving. I don't care if the Reds' management has a habit of ruining young pitchers' arms--even if they take time out to reincarnate them a la Gary Nolan...
...Hara's writing will never win the laurels that he desired. He was over shadowed by greater talents, and he was preoccupied with surfaces in an age that plumbed the depths. His habit of using brand names (Franklin cars, Brooks Brothers shirts) to indicate character al ready seems quaint, done in by the likes of Ian Fleming. Despite his huffing ef forts, Bruccoli does not prove that O'Hara was underrated as a writer. But he offers telling evidence that O'Hara was underrated...
...generation of academics. Contrasting his approach with that of graduate students of the 1960s, Doctorow says, "My generation is no longer so political. We didn't go into Russian studies to learn about revolution." He is severe: precisely dressed and pressed, with a neatly clipped dark beard and a habit of gnawing on the ends of his wire-rimmed glasses while thinking, his passion is "unearthing unknown documents" and his impressions of the present Soviet regime "unequivocably negative...
...recent months she and her roommates have donned long red robes and red turbans, the outlandish habit of their newly proclaimed religious order, which prays for Manson's miraculous return to freedom. As Squeaky told an interviewer: "We're nuns now, and we wear red robes. We're waiting for our Lord, and there's only one thing to do before he comes off the cross, and that's clean up the earth. Our red robes are an example of new morality. We must clean up the air, the water and the land. They...
Ford is a creature of habit. He is doing what he did for 25 years as a Congressman. It is, some have suggested, what he does best. Before he entered the Oval Office he was away 200 nights in some years, giving forgettable speeches. The ritual has been elevated now that he is in the presidency, but its basic ingredients are the same. Is the risk worth it? The answer is the same as it was in Dallas−when the gun went off. The old political urge to stand before any audience in any part of this nation will...