Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Douglas MacArthur, Army Chief of Staff. Two years later, he followed MacArthur to the Philippines to help prepare the islands' defenses. Worlds apart in temperament, the egocentric MacArthur and the self-effacing staff officer nevertheless grew to respect, if not like, each other. His celebrated commander had one habit that, Eisenhower confessed, "never ceased to startle me. In reminiscing or in telling stories of the current scene, he talked of himself in the third person. 'So MacArthur went over to the Senator . . .' " Ike later-was to direct historians recording his official speeches to avoid "the perpendicular pronoun"?the simple...
...arrangement of the desk, such as Phonophilia (installing a panoply of telephones, pushbuttons, flashing lights and loudspeakers) or Papyrophobia (the "clean desk" syndrome, indulged in because "every piece of paper is a reminder of the work the papyrophobe cannot do"). Other signs of the syndrome include Cachinatory Inertia, "the habit of telling jokes instead of getting on with business," as well as Side-Issue Specialization, a commonplace substitute for competence characterized by the motto: "Look after the molehills and the mountains will look after themselves...
Greenberg encouraged Helen in her habit of tearing up canvases that were too easy or familiar. His critical mark is best symbolized today not in the myriad lilting forms and colors that she puts upon her canvas, but in the ones she leaves out. Her work incorporates empty spaces that are often more forceful and outspoken than the painted ones. In The Human Edge, for example, the real Frankenthaler is to be found-not in the weighty banner forms that hang down from the top, but in the horizontal rectangle of white that lies beneath and behind them.The whole picture...
Until recently, the Amur-Ussuri area has been the site of the most spectacular provocations. On several occasions, the Chinese made a practice of marching prisoners to the center of the river, accusing them of being pro-Soviet traitors, and then beheading them. Another favorite habit was forming up on the river ice, sticking out tongues in unison at the Soviet troopers, and then turning and dropping trousers to the Russians in an ancient gesture of contempt. That tactic stopped when Soviet troops took refuge behind large portraits of Chairman...
...logic here is simple and very much in the vein of Cronbach's rebuttal to the Jensen paper, i.e., if you want black kids to think like white kids, imprint this type of thinking habit early (5 days to 2 years of age) with simple thinking, concept cluster tasks. White tutors can do this in the homes or at drop-in centers or white teachers can enable black parents to learn...