Word: habitant
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...robbery rate throughout Britain, as, bank trucks roam around with their cash loads, Parliament two years ago repealed the Truck Act, permitting firms to pay their workers by check. This month the change went into full effect-but those who counted on a dramatic change underestimated the power of habit in Britain...
...Lighter demonstrate O'Hara's perception of the hypocracies and paradoxes of our civilization. In the land of the free, the individual is trapped. Each story broadens our understanding of our lives by reminding us of the myriad restrictive pressures which confine us: sex, society, manners, ambition, obligation, capitalism, habit...
...appropriately entitled "Appearances". On the surface it describes the quarrel of a New York suburban couple over whether to attend a funeral. Using numerous arguments of social obligation the woman persuades her husband to abandon his weekly golf game and attend a funeral, for appearances. The confining pressures of habit--and resignation to it--are made vivid. "I took for granted that you'd be going to the funeral. I just took it for granted," Mrs. Ambrie explains. Her husband accepts this, saying "I suppose the same way people took for granted that Jack Hill (the deceased) was a friend...
...Spartan Regime. From Seattle to New England, the Rev. Elman J. Folkenberg and Dr. J. Wayne McFarland have brought their weed-killing message to throngs of dry-throated smokers. Their approach is simple. "We consider smoking an intense neurophysical habit plus straight addiction," says Dr. McFarland. "So it has both physiological and psychological components. We deal with both...
Never an S.A. Folkenberg and McFarland are already training other teachers in their methods. But there will never be an organization known as S.A. Once a smoker has shaken his habit, he is not about to remain anonymous. He is only too willing to tell the nicotine-stained how, through will power, he gave up the weed...