Word: habited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sententious rehash of every Walker Percy hero of the past (in fact, a direct borrowing from The Last Gentleman), Allison is a new creation, and she provides what little direction there is to The Second Coming's rambling. But too often Percy seems to be writing out of habit, letting the alienation and existential ideology flow lazily down the same channels cut by his earlier novels. Some of his metaphors are meaningless, form without substance...
...sententious rehash of every Walker Percy hero of the past (in fact, a direct borrowing from The Last Gentleman), Allison is a new creation, and she provides what little direction there is to The Second Coming's rambling. But too often Percy seems to be writing out of habit, letting the alienation and existential ideology flow lazily down the same channels cut by his earlier novels. Some of his metaphors are meaningless, form without substance...
...helped make Bell a great doctor, today's medical schools, psychiatric institutes and other professional training centers ignore it when picking their students. Says he: "Verbal intelligence has a dismal record for predicting success [in a career]. To rely on it alone is a form of intellectual habit. We are operating a fraudulent system of professional credentialing...
More and more company health programs cover alcohol and drug detoxification programs. There are now scores of post-detox rehabilitation programs as well, but they can still be ruinously expensive. One that aims to break a patient's habit but not his bankbook is Georgia's Metro Atlanta Recovery Residences Inc., or MARRinc. Its fee: $125 a week. Begun in 1975 by Donnie D. Brown, then a rehabilitation counselor and therapist at the Georgia Mental Health Institute, the program runs seven Atlanta-area halfway homes for detoxed drinkers and drug addicts who are not yet ready to return...
...bested Ted as once he beat the killer rabbit, down in the chigger latitudes. He smiles (force of habit) and meditates upon the Garden, like some mildly triumphant parson. Nearly four years pass behind his eyes: golden days, cardigan days, Billy Beer days; the abrupt surprise of Russian nastiness and the South Bronx ghettos. His reveries sweep to Jordan 's squirted Amarettos (a fancy drink for a good ole boy) and Vance and Lance, and jogger's tibia and all the money Billy made for being friends with Libya. But nothing can efface the joy of this renomination...