Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...being chauffeured in a black Cadillac limousine. Meany rides in front -not as a gesture toward egalitarianism, but because he gets carsick if he tries to read while sitting in back. On his way home to Bethesda, Md., he usually pores over the New York Daily News, a surviving habit from his days in The Bronx, which he left almost 30 years...
...ribbon style, where nothing ends, begins, or needs flourishing, gives a quiet sense of real life to things, works in a vacuum land with no echoes. So along with Peter Falk's husband you almost want to shut this woman away--stop this noise now--even though the habit or the love or the movie of living with her makes it hard and guilty...
Much of the country's unpredictability owes to the mercurial personality of Chairman Mao. He is a romantic revolutionary who has an unsettling habit of turning China topsy-turvy every once in a while to prevent bureaucratic ossification and ensure the vitality of what he terms "continuing revolution." Bent on "sweeping up the ghosts and monsters" of privilege and hierarchy, he may order his ministers out to dig irrigation ditches or even launch a campaign like the Cultural Revolution, which convulsed his huge country for three years...
...Ford asked people to list ten ways to save money and fight inflation--"little things that become a habit." To what two uses did he ask people to put the lists...
...Human Interest is probably the best popular book that has ever been written on the population crisis. This isn't to say there isn't a lot wrong with it. Brown is in the habit of writing a book a year; it shows. This one reads like transcribed dictation. It reflects phony-scientific jargon ("superaffluence") and is often simply inaccurate (the world has not run out of arable land, fish catches can be increased, perhaps even doubled.) The material is so sloppily organized that I had to skip back and forth through the book to prove to myself that...