Word: habited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enough inside information to put a story in perspective. At the same time, it protects the source from getting into trouble for divulging sensitive information. Over the years, however, too many Washington officials have become conditioned to making background material "not for attribution" through sheer force of habit. Washington Post Managing Editor Benjamin Bradlee finally decided to try to call a halt to spurious backgrounders in his paper. "Ninety percent of the information given by background," he declared, "could be on the record...
...episodes that attempts to provide a portrait of modern Italy. A good many of the scenes are merely blackout sketches, some as brief as a minute: a beautiful girl stares wistfully at a bridal gown in a shop window; the camera pulls back to show her nun's habit. A group of starving peasants gaze at a wall poster reading "Help India." An inquiring reporter asks a man without TV what he does to amuse himself...
...message is a sort of Catholic moral rearmament-an opportunity for serious and dedicated men to live Christian lives outside the cathedral as well as in it. Its founder, Escrivá, gave up a law career to join the priesthood. But instead of encouraging others to take up the habit, Escrivá began preaching that laymen who dedicate their work to God have as much chance as priests to achieve sanctity...
...evangelist against this foolish suntanning habit," says U.C.L.A. Dermatologist Dr. J. Walter Wilson. "But trying to persuade people to stop lying in the sun for hours is as difficult as getting them to give up smoking." Simply put, suntans may look good but they are very bad medicine. The sun's rays eventually cause the skin to wrinkle and sag, aging effects seen most clearly on the back of a cowboy's neck. The rays also produce lentigines, the brown marks often called liver spots. By far the worst result, however, is skin cancer...
...concert. "The thing seems to be snow balling." Yet Ives predicted more than 40 years ago that it might be centuries before composers plumbed the quarter-tone system-or listeners' ears got accustomed to it. Meantime, he warned: "To go to extremes in anything is an old-fashioned habit...