Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effects of the papers on Government officials: "If the courts hold that this kind of material can be taken out of Government on this basis and made public, it will bring about major changes in the conduct of Government. My habit was that I did not go around writing a lot of memoranda. I've been in Government long enough to know it is not a good idea to spread papers all over the landscape. People will just find other ways to proceed. It will be a little less convenient and future historians will pay some cost...
Even more discretion is allowed bureaucrats in using the lesser degrees of classification. Most communications with foreign governments fall into the secret category. But bureaucrats have got in the habit of stamping documents secret simply to make sure that their superiors will read them They know that a confidential classification will hardly raise an eyebrow. As for unclassified material, it is all but superfluous. As often as not, it consists of the transcript of a speech that was delivered in public...
Wayne E. Oates had been an addict for nearly 30 years when he managed to kick his habit in 1966. Oates, a professor of the psychology of religion at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., had been hooked not by drugs or alcohol but by what he calls "workaholism-the uncontrollable need to work incessantly." Now, convinced that his old sickness is a common and crippling affliction, he has recounted his experiences for the benefit of other sufferers in a newly published book, Confessions of a Workaholic (World...
...Tureen. Yet artists managed to, at first by subterfuge. A sculptor might rent a loft for $100 or less a month, clean it out and install a folding bed that could disappear against the wall if a building inspector called. He had no security of tenure. The typical habit of SoHo slumlords, which persists today, was to offer no lease, wait for the artist to spend a few thousand dollars renovating the loft, and then arbitrarily double the rent. The pattern of exploitation worked because artists had nowhere else to go. There was no space uptown. Greenwich Village was already...
...hated Locustland. Hated the habit of hype ("You're gonna be the new Garbo"), the cult of cute (they tried to change her name to Gilda Christian) and the geniuses in silver ties. Her pages are blistered with portraits in epithet. Zanuck has his "beaver's teeth pronged into a cigar." Skouras is merely an "oxlike package, voice like a child's rattle." Louella Parsons is kissed off as "The Queen Mother at Toad Hall." Marilyn Monroe, "a child with short legs and a fat bottom," wonders innocently: "Who is Thomas Mann...