Word: habits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Charles W. Eliot recalled after his resignation some of the fires throughout the University's history. One of them involved a French instructor who used to teach in the University Hall basement classroom in the 1858-9 term. He had a touchy habit of listing his agenda for the day on the blackboard and hiding it with a curtain so as not to distract his young men in class. Then he would whip the curtain back dramatically and pompously at the right time in the recitation period...
Lehrer's "career" branched out from a pleasant habit of writing songs for people. 'In the old days," when it was for a roommate or a guy at dinner, I'd write hundreds of songs," Lehrer says. "Now that it's my living, I've stopped doing it. Then, if it was a lousy song, nobody cared. But when I started singing for money, it was a matter of deleting songs rather than adding them. I only write songs I can use professionally now, the other ideas are generally too personal or too offensive to use on the stage...
...opposed the Eisenhower Administration's plan for a six-months' extension of excess profits taxes. In a rare move, House Republican leadership bypassed Reed's committee. Commented one Democrat: "Mr. Reed has been in the minority so long that bucking the White House is an unbreakable habit with...
...Well, look here, little man, Goddamit, I am your Goddam roommate," I pointed out, rather cogently I thought. "I live here too. And you ought to get out of this habit of getting up promptly at the crack of noon. It's bad for your health...
Many good students will have to be weaned gradually but firmly from the habit of shaping all their remarks for the benefit of the teacher; other students, who have resisted this tendency, will find an unfamiliar pleasure in expressing to their peers their own unforced responses to what they are reading...