Word: habited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more young people undertake the professional study of literature; fewer and fewer like to read. It is my impression that the act of reading, which used to be an appetite and a passion, is now thought to be rather 'infra dig' in people of intelligence; students make it a habit to settle on a very few authors, or, if possible, one author, whom, they undertake to comprehend entirely and to make their own; or to wait until they can conceive a 'problem' suitable to their talents before they read...
...This means that he must read "the original" in order to satisfy his conscience. Criticism is, however, needed to retain his social status, since personal reactions, even when they exist, are seldom marketable. This is a very time-consuming process, known as being an English major; but since the habit is unproductive it seldom extends beyond the college level, except as it becomes a part of the professional ritual of professional debates, or the publisher's cocktail parade...
Panic & Deals. Actually, the problem is all too real right now for thousands of high-school students. In their panic to get into college-and in their wild search for the best scholarship deals-today's youngsters have acquired the habit of applying to as many schools as possible. One Connecticut boy, for instance, was able to choose between Amherst, which offered him no scholarship. Bates, which offered $600, Wesleyan with a $500 offer, Holy Cross with $700, and Yale with $1,250. Another boy sent Princeton an irate letter after he was rejected, pointed out that...
...finds. Psychoanalysts, says Dr. Suzuki, his tiny eyes twinkling under winglike eyebrows, have a lot to learn from Zen: "They go round and round on the surface of the mind without stopping. But Zen goes deep." The main difficulty Westerners have with Zen, says Suzuki, is their habit of thinking dialectically-either-or. sub ject-object, positive-negative. Zen sees only one instead of two. "Westerners analyze things," says Dr. Suzuki, "but in the East we see a thing all at once and with our whole bodies, instead of just our minds...
...humanism-understood as a shifting of history's and life's center from God to man-has become a part of man's mentality, and has grown through the centuries to the point that besides atheism there has grown up an indifference to God, a habit of mind wherein the need of God is not felt in that man feels sufficient unto himself. In this atmosphere God is relegated to the place of a 'poor relation' . . . But such an attitude cannot provide man with a reason for his existence-much less can it provide...