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Word: habitable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everything into perspective." Given some of the fantasies in which Mayday was indulging last week, that may take some time. The irony is that at a moment when the majority of Americans are turning increasingly against the war, some of the antiwar radicals, as if from long habit of alienation and more than a touch of egocentricity, seem intent on focusing angry attention upon themselves instead of on the battle they mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Self-Defeat for the Army of Peace | 5/17/1971 | See Source »

...anew they have gone nowhere; the heroin, like the streets, is its own dead end. The film closes on that despairing note and on Wayne's abrupt realization that he is fully hooked. Real life has been only slightly kinder for the three junkies. Angel has shaken the habit, and now tours with the film, lending whatever help and information he can in post-screening discussions; the other two are in jail. But as Right On! and Skezag both make clear, there are ways to be imprisoned without once being behind bars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In the Streets | 5/10/1971 | See Source »

...plausible theory that it cannot be done. But he reckons without the Rev. Clayton Brooks (Dick Van Dyke). Led by the uptight, upright preacher, Eagle Rock, Iowa, turns abolitionist. In the process, it writhes with collective withdrawal symptoms familiar to anyone who has tried to kick the habit. Such civil strife is grossly overdone, and the refinement of Lear's touch is perhaps best exhibited when a Pentagon colonel promises the town a share in the defense budget: a large bull is shown in the foreground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Kicking the Habit | 5/3/1971 | See Source »

...Elizabeth I should follow The Forsyte Saga and The First Churchills to a long-playing appearance on U.S. television screens. The role lets her display more than neurotic lubricity. To accept it she piqued Director Russell by turning down a role as a nun-with an insatiable sex habit, of course-in his next film The Devils. "It had nothing to do with Ken," she says. "He creates a proper climate for actors, even if he doesn't care anything about them. I was simply sick and tired of playing sex-crazed neurotics. I didn't have anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Talented Mrs. Hodges | 4/26/1971 | See Source »

Peebles said that a good return from the senior class is an important selling point in encouraging contributions from alumni, as well as a way to get people into the habit of giving early in their real world careers...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: Seniors' Generosity To Harvard Soars | 4/15/1971 | See Source »

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