Word: habited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mama and its sponsor, Maxwell House Coffee, have one of the few happy commercial marriages in television. The fragile mood of each show builds steadily without being split down the middle by TV's most distressing habit: the long-winded advertising plug. The commercials are blended skillfully into family coffee klatsches at the beginning and end of each program...
Paul Douglas of Illinois, a liberal who is endowed with the heretical habit of favoring economy in Government, was still sniffing and measuring away. Without even touching the vast funds ticketed for national defense, he thought he detected $4 to $6.5 billion of possible fat: $100 million of general Government expenditures, $300 million in the VA, maybe $200 million in agriculture, $150 million in conservation programs, another $150 million in the Government-loan field, down to countless hundreds of thousands that could be saved by buying cheaper cars for Government officials and cheaper paper for Government clerks...
Once acquired, said he, the picture-collecting habit "becomes like the drug habit ; you cannot live without it. Your walls may be bulging with paintings, business may be bad and prospects none too good, baby needs a pair of shoes, and you've sworn off buying. But honest, it's just this once and there's nothing you can do about it. There's no cure for it. Fact is, you don't want to be cured...
...master of fine line and delicate color, had some advice for young artists: "The one big fault with Americans is that they do not see what is around them until they see it in a picture . . . the young American artist [should] learn to see, to break himself of the habit of not seeing. I would say to him, break all the cameras, never take a photograph, never look at a photograph. Then paint...
Except for some excellent art work and a fine bright cover, the rest of the Advocate shades off into mediocrity. There is another long anecdote about Europe by Hona Karmel called "The Old Ignacy." Her material is rich, but she has a nasty habit of letting her writing smother it; when Miss Karmel talks about coffee, she calls it a "black fragrant fluid." Andrew Zimmer's introspective and involved story of a boy who has lost his father, "Sideways to the Sun," topples of its own length. A section of Hall's introduction to the new Advocate Anthology is straight...