Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Doing well has been a Donnahoe habit from the start. The youngest of ten children, he was forced to find work at 15 when his father died. He set type, swept floors, and ran errands for the Asheville (N.C.) Weekly Advocate, working 60 hours a week for $12. In his spare time, Donnahoe studied law at home, and passed the North Carolina bar exams at 21 without a formal legal education. After moving to Richmond, he served as publicity and research director for the Chamber of Commerce there, studied the science of statistics in off hours, and soon became...
...joining it; in private life he is a frightened, self-seeking, self-deceiving fumbler. The book's most moving passages are those in which Vercors shows how his hero's fear of love makes him lose the girl he should have married, how his habit of self-ignorance allows him to repress his grief, how his hypocrisy and weakness eventually poison his marriage and destroy his closest friendship...
...drug problem was first driven home to the American public by former Army Secretary Stanley Resor and Connecticut Congressman Robert H. Steele, who reported that between 10% and 15% of U.S. troops in Viet Nam -or 26,000 to 39,000 men-had developed a heroin habit. Few quarreled with that estimate, and some placed the number even higher...
Many teaching nuns by now have changed either to "regular" dress or to modified forms of their religious habit, and many Catholic schools have broken through traditional classroom methods to the newer forms of education...
Needle Park is a more conventional work, concentrating on a love affair between a pusher named Bobby (Al Pacino) and a girl called Helen (Kitty Winn), who has come to New York from Indiana, had a bad love affair and a painful abortion. She picks up a habit from Bobby and becomes a prostitute to raise dope money for both of them. They hole up with other junkies in the threadbare hotel rooms around...