Word: habitant
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...have known about Half Moon Mountain almost since its inception. About a year ago Composer-Pianist Edwin Otto Gerschefski, dean of music at Spartanburg's Converse College, wrote us about his plan. He said he was a weekly reader of TIME with a habit of clipping stories and depositing them in the pocket of his jacket for easy reference. One such story, from the May 26, 1947 issue, had impr es s e d him so much ("I couldn't get it out of my mind") that he wanted permission to set it to music...
...dutiful adherence to habit almost killed him-somebody was waiting with a shotgun in the darkness outside the window...
...treatment that Dr. Condon got from the Thomas Committee made nearly all atomic scientists hopping mad. They objected particularly to the Committee's habit of "trying" cases in the newspapers without giving the victim a chance to defend himself. Many wrote long, violent replies to the questionnaire, predicting that such irresponsible attacks would cause the Government to lose its' best scientific talent. Seventy-five percent of the scientists questioned stated that the Condon affair had made them more reluctant to go into Government service. It has made 12% of them "decide to decline any such offer...
...habit of stopping in the midst of traffic while he groped painfully for the right word; his conversation, with its "Chinese nests of parentheses" and its sentences that "dropped to the floor and bounced about like tiny rubber balls"; his way of coming into a room, carrying his silk hat, stick and gloves; his reputation as both a wit and a bore ("Nobody bored him," said Violet Hunt, "he took care of that. . ."); his reputation for incomprehensibility ("Poor old James," said George Meredith, "he sets down on paper these mysterious rumblings in his bowels -but who could be expected...
...this shaggy-browed poet tells the class; inspiration and craftsmanship; he then proceeds to debunk the notion, ("a hangover from romanticism") that all writing is the produce of the divine word alone. The artist must create from within, the says, but it can't be done until techniques becomes habit, and devices spring up automatically. Craftsmanship is the key to the successful writer's trade. Only when the apprentice learns the craft and chooses his weapons will his message, no matter how great, be heard. "But no real prose talent is going unpublished," he says...