Word: habit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lewis recently proposed banning smoking in all residential houses to protect the health of smokers, students contemplating becoming smokers, and their roommates. Lewis hopes that a ban would persuade smokers to quit and dissuade non-smokers from picking up the habit. Wary of objections, Lewis believes his plan is palatable because "there's a lot of sentiment that would favor a complete [prohibition of] smoking among students." Should campus support for a ban not suffice, Lewis adds, "the general trend of society would support doing this...
...protean variety, his febrile energy (which could have come from his lifelong habit of popping nitroglycerin pills for a dicey heart), his incessant self-celebration and his absolute refusal to believe there was anything finer than to be born an American, unless to die as one in some glorious battle for the flag, the great "Teddy" was as representative of 20th century dynamism as Abraham Lincoln had been of 19th century union and George Washington of 18th century independence...
...with the characters in these books. They represented a different world from that of my peers, who were just beginning to decide they wanted to be doctors, schoolteachers, and lawyers. Personally, I would have settled for being a gangster's moll, or even a mysterious heiress with a cocaine habit. But my ideal alter ego was the prostitute with the heart of gold, who in a fit of morality turns in her crime connections, or falls in love with the slightly seedy but sexy hero...
...little too much on the general college observance that lectures do not begin until seven minutes after the hour and stretching that concept to apply to things rather outside it, like catching planes. Or perhaps I was just lazy. Regardless of the cause, however, I quickly realized the habit was worth breaking and set about to correct it the only way I knew how: by setting my watch a few minutes ahead...
...began to eat away at my life: I had inadvertently created a space where the concept of time itself had been effectively destroyed. Perhaps I could have checked my roommates' clocks, but they were having similar time-related problems that made invading their rooms difficult--one was in the habit of going to bed and waking up early to take seven-hour practice MCATs, while the other slept at random hours, adding up to about six hours per day over each three-day period but otherwise conforming to no particular pattern. I found myself calling home and slyly asking...