Word: habit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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McConnell is hard to miss. Big, strong and exuding a justifiably confident air, she has the habit of pulverizing balls on the squash court. She is also equipped with an uncanny sense of timing and finesse, complementing her power...
Although his states this season aren't quite up to par with recent years. Dennis (4,62 goals-against 866 save percentage) shut Harvard down in Cambridge the last time here, 3-2, and the Crimson is making a habit of treating goaltenders to their hours between the posts...
...voted for F.D.R. four times: in 1932, for change; in 1936, to complete the change; in 1940, because of impending war, and it was no time for change; and in 1944, I was addicted. Finally, I kicked the Democratic habit. The country has managed to survive...
...indulgence of a false analogy can skew judgment. In general, foreign policy is better served by a conscious attempt to analyze each situation afresh, rather than by the wisdom of hindsight (which, of course, is really not wisdom at all). Soldiers, it has often been said, have the bad habit of waging the last war. Americans, in their current fretting over El Salvador, are similarly afflicted. Across the political spectrum, there is no one who wants to re-experience in Central America the defeat of Indochina. From that, the left is tempted to conclude: Better not to fight...
...Alvarez uses his first marriage as the vehicle for a rambling meditation on the vagaries of love and separation. Like his previous work, a study of suicide, The Savage God, he treats a difficult and distressing subject in the symmetrical style of belles-lettres. Divorce, he remarks dryly, "transforms habit into drama," turning miseries into melodramatic history. Roman marriage, he observes, was a civil contract based on mutual affection. When that affection perished, the marriage, like any civil contract, could be dissolved by mutual consent. This sensible arrangement, according to Alvarez, was compromised by Christianity. The early church fathers elevated...