Word: habits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter from a village in the interior, asking that Uncle Tim admonish little José García for always picking his nose, putting the pickies on the furniture and upsetting his mamacita and papacito. "José," wheedled Uncle Tim on the radio, "that is a terrible habit. People won't like you if you keep...
...remaining birthday parties, to welcome the less fantastic of his admirers. They were not the common workmen he had written for, but those poets and cultivated hangers-on who are the fate of poets in general. He kept adding to Leaves oj Grass. It had become "a habit." He wrote Democratic Vistas, a book of prose more perceptive of the weak spots in U.S. democracy than anything Whitman had written before. He had outlived his pre-Civil War hopefulness, but he was still capable only of vague "orbic" statements about the leadership of "the divine literatus," and preached once again...
...Habit to Break. U.S. citizens annually travel one and a half billion air miles, 15 billion intercity-bus miles, 25 billion rail miles, 240 billion motor miles -and the habit is hard to break, war or no war. With more money in pocket than ever before, people were crowding the public carriers, had increased traffic 50% in the first six months...
...Mutual, with a million young listeners who have the cowboys-&-Indians habit, had to have a substitute for the Lone Ranger. Just in time, the forsaken network remembered Red Ryder, "six feet of redheaded trigger lightning," famed in boys' books, N.E.A.-syndicated comic strips, cinema serials, and, oddly enough, first serialized for radio by the Blue, 16 weeks ago on the Pacific Coast...
...rule out this odd chance. The letter under his hand was only a formal little period to an occasion that had ended two days before. He wondered why he'd written it, now that he thought it over. The letter didn't lead on to anything else. Social habit, maybe. No. And people didn't write bread and butter notes when there was no more bread and butter. In three weeks Ann would be leaving Radcliffe, which closed out the league for good as far as Vag was concerned...