Word: habited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Michael Balcon; I.F.E.) nearly puts its audience to sleep before shocking it awake with the chilling reminder that, in the midst of life, man is in death. Robert Donat is the grey, ineffectual vicar of a tiny parish in rural Yorkshire. His daily round is a dreary mixture of habit and frustrations. Carefully nurtured by his tweedy wife (Kay Walsh), pampered by his genteelly hoydenish daughter (Adrienne Corri), he has only one major problem: how to find enough money to pay for Adrienne's musical education in London...
...scope, the work is at once all-comprehensive and highly sensitive. It is simultaneously a drama of man against fate, man against man, and man against himself, skillfully woven into story. Yet the perceptive author is never lost in the grandiose scheme. The eye for delineation of habit and idiosyncrasy combine with a dramatist's craftsmanship to engross the reader...
...colleges have made it almost a habit to berate the U.S. secondary school for the quality of student it sends them. This week, in his annual report, Dean William Warren of the Columbia University School of Law turned the tables on the colleges. "We are entitled," he wrote, "to expect that the college graduate be able to read argumentative or expository prose swiftly, comprehendingly. and retentively; that he be able to express himself in speech and writing grammatically, literately, and precisely; that he has learned the basic lesson of using a dictionary. But we have found that...
...exhaustive as Joyce's [own] as we sink into the bog-so misleadingly called a stream-of Irish consciousness. Joyce is the theologian of the interior morass ... As for meaning, Joyce attempts to replace it by 'pattern,' and, in doing so, he was prophetic of modern habit: unguided by moral conviction, impelled by scientific bent, we use the notion of 'pattern' to cover our lack of sense of moral direction." In Joyce's pattern, "God becomes word, life becomes a fantastic department of rhetoric and we need not go outside its inebriation in order...
This man with the monkey of addiction is Frankie Machine, a professional poker dealer who, in a federal institution, has already won a partial victory over the habit. When he comes home, however, his determination to leave the cards and the heroin and to find a job as a drummer soon breaks again. In just a few days, a lying and rapacious wife, a preying dope peddler, and his own weakness send Frankie screaming to a locked room, to break the habit once more...