Word: habitant
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...When I entered the convent, I never expected to be fashionable again. However, I now find I'm in the avant-garde of the Longuette look [Sept. 14] in my religious habit...
Suspense has never been a drawing card for Harvard's season opener. Those who go do it out of habit-perhaps even a vague sense of loyalty-rather than interest. The opponents, if you can call them that, are usually not known for their prowess... lucky if they are know at all. Three years ago, Harvard lined up lowly Lafayette and won, 51-0. Last year, Harvard took on Holy Cross a few days before the team came down with hepatitis and eked out a 13-0 victory...
What was not enacted was of greater significance. Proposed modification of the seniority system was defeated. Members will still be able to vote by proxy in committee. They will also be able to indulge their habit of changing the Congressional Record's verbatim reports of what is said on the floor...
...does all this, or claims to, by getting his patient to write in ways that promote positive values. Someone whose base lines waver (a sign of instability) or descend (depression, fear) is asked to practice running the lines upward on the page (optimism, ambition) until it becomes a habit. When that happens, De Sainte Colombe insists, the subconscious gets the message, and the undesired personality defect vanishes...
...despair of their handlers, the boys have a habit of drifting away whenever potential interviewers show up. When actually forced by Promoter Bill Graham or Marcum to meet journalists, they become as uncommunicatively polite as children who have been ordered to be nice to the visiting preacher. Carlos, who is designated "leader" only because the musicians' union insisted that the group had to have a leader, will not turn up for a press conference at all. One reason may be the group's abhorrence of the common journalistic practice of putting labels on things-especially the tag Latin...