Word: habitant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Massachusetts habit of "voting the man" sent Republican Leverett Saltonstall back to the Senate and Republican John A. Volpe into the Governor's mansion (even as Native Son Jack Kennedy walked off with the state) to threaten a degree of political chaos unusual even for the Bay State. Prosperous Contractor Volpe, whose margin of victory was largely supplied by the Italian-American votes he won away from the Democrats, is the only Republican in a top state office; with no previous legislative experience, he faces a heavily Democratic legislature. The state's feud-ridden Democratic organization needs...
Koestler has no patience with the self-deprecating habit of contrasting a contemplative, spiritual East with a crass, materialistic West. The difference, he says, is not between spirituality and materialism but between Western philosophy-love of wisdom-and Eastern "philousia" (from the Greek word ousia, meaning essential Being), which "prefers intuition to reason, symbols to concepts, self-realization through the annihilation of the ego to self-realization through the unfolding of individuality...
...Faithfull, the heroine was a semiprofessional call girl, with a phone on Manhattan's BUtterfield exchange. In the movie, she is just an enthusiastic amateur (Elizabeth Taylor) who promiscuously offers peace to the tired businessman. In the book, the hero was a middle-aged commuter with a careless habit of making women and missing trains. In the movie, he is a handsome young casualty of the battle for status, a poor boy (Laurence Harvey) who got rich quick by marrying the boss's daughter (Dina Merrill) and has felt like a kept man ever since. One night when...
...Harvard is forced to punt: hope that Wolfe doesn't get the He has a habit of returning like he does kick-offs...
...Types can always be summed up in a few phrases," Bentley explained in his last Charles Eliot Norton Lecture of the Fall Term. A type is a "person whose future is predictable, because he is a creature of habit...