Word: habitable
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...have a less inflated grading system, the rewards that are given out will go on the basis of some kind of favoritism, and I think that is clearly wrong," he says. "Also, if you give someone too high a grade, and he is in the habit of getting too high grades, it's a kind of flattery and it leads to a kind of corruption in the student which...
...Like Vasarely, Riley prefers to have her work done by assistants from a preplanned sketch, with every color shift worked out in advance. Yet the way the paintings work on the eye is unpredictable, and almost baffles analysis. As Art Critic Bryan Robertson put it, "We are creatures of habit and rarely fully stretched. Riley's paintings are alive with potentiality; they disrupt visual complacency and do not provide us with any opportunity for evasion or rest...
...Habit. She decided to pause. That pause extended into a 15-month intermission while she plunged into a surge of demanding musical activity. She studied classical composers-Bach, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff. Scornful of record producers with eyes for trends but with unschooled ears, Flack decided to produce her own album. She booked studio time, hired musicians and arrangers, and passed out W-2 forms, even struggling to learn to operate the engineer's console. It took over a year to complete the record, and Flack says that she will never do all that again. She is confident that...
Success is an old habit with Flack...
...decline. "There is a weaker attachment to the Houses than there used to be. The faculty used to enjoy the attachment. It was an amorphous thing, but it did lend something to student-faculty relations. The change may be a by-product of 1969--the habit of getting to the Houses regularly may have been broken. There is a problem in maintaining momentum...