Word: habits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...power to evoke lyrically (with occasional lapses into tremolo) a moonlight night at Princeton, a summer dawn, reaches of land and water; a vest-pocket Proust's preoccupation with houses, furniture, streets. He had a masculine power to recreate the sensuous opulence of young women; a curiously feminine habit of seeing at a glance not only the color of people's hair and the shape of their chins, but of seeing at the same glance what color their hair would be, how many chins they would have ten years hence. Nobody else set down so accurately the syncopated...
...history-this great fact stood out like a large sore thumb. The budget was a "document full of human meaning," as the Newark News noted. Like the budgets of Mr. Average Citizen, it was full of unjustifiable errors of judgment, of expenses borne out of habit, of big installments still being paid on past mistakes. Like private budgets, too, was its patient, powerless, hopeful meaninglessness: there was no magic in it that would keep the U. S. within its income-just as a budgeted citizen looks over his checkbook and wonders what-the-George all those stubs marked "Cash" went...
...magazine they abhor is that it should be read only by the cook. C. K. Dexter Haven shows his broad mind to Tracy by admitting: "You could marry Mac, the night watchman, and I'd cheer you." The parvenu coal executive is first ridiculed because his riding habit is new and clean "like something right out of a store window." Contempt for his kind is expressed by Haven's: "A splendid chap, very high morals, very broad shoulders." And when the parvenu bridegroom leaves them all, sputtering: "You and your whole rotten class! You're on your...
...factory was a routine matter. The ship, with its hull built only for landing on water, was now rushing over a land where Spanish conquistadors, men in covered wagons, desert rats had died for want of water. But the two officers, the five crewmen gave themselves up to the habit of flight, the saving certainty of airmen that all landings must be happy...
Last week in Philadelphia, Violinist Krasner and white-haired Conductor Leopold Stokowski's Philadelphia Orchestra gave Schönberg's Violin Concerto its first public hearing. While the aged Academy of Music's Friday-afternoon audience sat quietly from force of habit, Louis Krasner fiddled so hard he nearly dropped his bow. The bewildered audience couldn't tell whether all of Schönberg's "unplayable" notes were being played or not. When it was over, the orchestra looked embarrassed, the audience, impressed by an obvious feat of strength and skill, drowned...