Word: habitant
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...five years (1917-22), because of that war, he did not play, "in case the old habit comes back and demands my time." Paderewski put Poland back on the map at the Versailles conference, and Clemenceau told him: "So now you are the Premier...
Sirs: Ten-year-old Ann Gardner [who surmised that she might be TIME'S youngest reader-TIME, June 9] is indeed a young reader of TIME-but enclosed is evidence that my little girl-not yet six-had the TIME habit several years...
...merit of an air force that is part of the Navy with which it operates is that it is bound to cooperate with the fleet in action. The demerit of that relationship is that the development of the vital air arm may be retarded by seagoing officers who by habit think in terms of water rather than air fighting...
...London Sunday Express: "Do we even now understand that we are at death grips in a fight for our lives? We do not. . . . These crowds of people . . . were symptoms of a fatal frame of mind. Their peril and their fate were at the back of that mind. Custom and habit were at the front of it. . . . If the cause of the shut down is lack of raw materials, then a sad situation exists. If the cause is 'holiday is as usual,' then a scandalous situation exists...
Emerson is Matthiessen's toughest assignment "because of his inveterate habit of stating things in opposites." He all but worshiped Plato's ability to reconcile fact and abstraction, spent his life in a ceaseless effort to do likewise. That effort made him what he said of Goethe: "The cow from which the rest drew their milk." His conceptions of "the infinitude of the private man," of the equality of all souls, of content as above expression (to the point of windy disregard for expression), of the poet as seer or prophet, of the intuitive moment as final knowledge...