Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bruce has lived in Harlem all of his life. He nearly lost his life there too on several dozen occasions during his five-year career dealing drugs in the schools and streets. Shy, slim, hip and extremely intelligent, Bruce kicked his three-year-old drug habit at the Addicts Rehabilitation Center in Harlem last summer. He will soon graduate from Harlem Prep and will enter Northwestern University in September, hoping eventually for a Ph.D. in psychology; when he gets it, he plans to return to the ghetto to help rehabilitate drug addicts...
When Bruce's father discovered his habit, he sent him to live for a time with relatives in rural Virginia ("Even there I managed to get dope"). A year ago, Bruce's father brought him back to Harlem and placed him immediately in the Addicts Rehabilitation Center, an overcrowded, financially squeezed but markedly successful operation run by an ex-addict named James Allen. After nine months at A.R.C., Bruce enrolled at Harlem Prep...
They were wrong. Since the boycott, blacks have lost the habit of shopping on Dryades Street, partly because a white-owned bank, a Woolworth's and a McCrory's store have moved elsewhere-and the whole area has gone downhill. Though Willis and Dural offer brand-name clothes at reasonable prices, middle-class blacks prefer to shop at more prestigious downtown stores-a habit that in other cities is yielding to a "buy black" movement. Willis and Dural do not have the resources to provide credit, and they have refused to send customers to white loan sharks...
...form of payroll deductions from other Palestinians' salaries and manning their own border checkpoints. They are the new heroes of Arab youth: nine-year-olds train with real guns and chant a fedayeen cry, "Oh Zionists, do not think you are safe. Drinking blood is a habit of our men." They are the idols of grown Arabs, who refer affectionately to Arafat as "the old man," to Habash as "the doctor," and to the fedayeen generally as "the boys...
There is nothing new in Pat Moynihan's sparking controversy. His memos have a habit of finding their way into print. Back in 1965, when he was an Assistant Secretary of Labor, he wrote a confidential report on the state of the Negro family; one of the chief factors condemning Negroes to poverty, he argued, was the unstable matriarchy created by the absence of fathers in so many homes. When the report got into the press, blacks and whites alike hotly denounced Moynihan for emphasizing black culpability more than white discrimination. In a book published last year, Maximum Feasible...