Word: habited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rants have a reputation for butting in, according to a joke that circulated in the second grade in 1968, and evidently the URI Rants are in the habit of preserving...
...getting to be a habit with the softball team. Take the field, humiliate opponents...
...general absence of panic. Faith in science, as the doctors were relied on to tell the country what its future looked like. Faith in God, for those who have it. Faith too in the press, remarkably; the same press that is excoriated as a matter of daily habit, still counted on in a real emergency to get the truth as best it can, as fast as it can - and to tell it. A sense of national unity, in sadness and anxiety. A sense of outrage at violence. If the U.S. really were as fundamentally violent as it is made...
...Harvard men's lightweight crew has a 12-year habit of going to the Eastern Sprints Championship and coming back with the Jope Cup. But now there's a bit of spice in the offing this year, for it seems the lights will have to defend the title without a freshman eight...
...rarely dull, but they do produce a peculiar lifelessness in the novel as a whole. There is little to propel the reader forward except the expectation of more information. Vidal provides a multitude of incidents but no strong plot to bind them together. Cyrus abjures suspense; he has the habit of introducing characters by telling what finally happens to them first. Aside from the old man's large memory, Creation is unified by a single irony: Cyrus tells of his search for religious certainty to the person who will one day become an eminent philosopher of materialism. Near...