Word: habit
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POLITICAL demagogues, no matter what ideology they espouse, have a nasty habit of stereotyping their opponents as a single, unified force. Such groups define themselves by redefining--and even creating--an enemy group against which to fight. And anyone who doubts the effectiveness of such techniques need look no farther than the Harvard campus to see them in action...
...Lord's song in a strange land?" inquires the psalmist. With reverence, replies Mordecai Richler. Plus a few gags ("What's black and white and brown and looks good on a lawyer?" "A Doberman"); a couple of philosophical digressions ("Liquor, once you're hooked on it, is a hard habit to break. Like God, Henry thought . . ."); some manic riffs on fame ("That dumbbell the Duke of Windsor he threw in the sponge for a tart. You want the Duke and Duchess for a charity ball, you rent them like a tux from Tip-Top"); and the most furiously original cast...
...state's new $28.6 million advertising war against smoking. The California blitz is designed to counter the slick marketing efforts of tobacco firms with equally sophisticated TV, radio and newspaper ads. The goal: to persuade 5 million of the state's 7 million smokers to kick the habit by the end of the decade. Most ironic of all is that the campaign will be financed by smokers through a new 25 cents-a-pack cigarette tax. Says Thomas Lauria, a spokesman for the Tobacco Institute: "Now smokers are paying for their own harassment...
...this be the same TASS that has been known chiefly for its dull, turgid reporting and its habit of tucking important news into the last paragraph? The captive wire service that was run by and for the Soviet government, peddling propaganda before facts? It is indeed, but something remarkable has happened to the 1,300 reporters, editors and photographers who are currently working in 113 countries for TASS. After Gorbachev took over in 1985 and launched the era of glasnost, the news agency faced a new challenge: to enhance its credibility by reporting more aggressively, more thoroughly and more accurately...
...connected to human relationships. The problem with the casual sex so fashionable in films is not that it arouses lust but that it deadens feelings and annihilates privacy. The danger is not that sexual exploitation will create sex fiends but that it may spawn eunuchs. People who have the habit of seeing everything and doing anything run the risk of feeling nothing...