Word: habits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once threatened to do, to the subject of a U.S. bombing pause; the whole of Southeast Asia was discussed. Moreover, the U.S. is hoping that Hanoi is bargaining for something more than just time. One purpose of North Viet Nam's initially intransigent stance, aside from habit, may well be to convince Peking that there will be no sellout of the Viet Cong-just as the U.S. is constantly reassuring its allies that it will not abandon Saigon...
...case of any concert, there are always nits to pick. Mrs. Harbison and even Levin himself exhibited a tendency to rush and blur the details in more rapid passages. In addition, they both had the annoying habit of building to a climax but somehow giving up or losing concentration before the crucial moment. The result was a large number of fractured phrases and a general sense of frustration. Mrs. Harbison's intonation, like that of the quintet, was frequently poor...
Pettigrew and others feel that the remedy consists in the deployment of "White Power" at every level of white society, challenging behavior and attitude patterns that have stiffened in place less by prejudice than by habit. A mere handful of shoppers serially stating their concern to a local storekeeper because he hires no Negro help are likely to revolutionize his personnel policy: from this modest sample, in a pattern familiar to psychologists, the proprietor senses the sentiment of the community-or thinks he does. New behavior patterns can change old attitudes. "People will assume that it's right...
...Sacred Heart in 1964. Although Sister Tina spends most of her time studying theology, her superiors have lately allowed her to dance at experimental worship services. She is not allowed to wear ballet costumes. So she performs in a white version of Sacred Heart's traditional black habit - the order wears both colors - because, as she puts it, "white celebrates life...
...Buswell also had a surprising number of lapses of bow control, with a tendency toward a glassy tone whenever he wanted to play softly. On the surer grounds of the more aggressive rapid movements, his playing was marred only by his arbitrary choices of moment for echo effects, a habit detrimental to the continuity of Bach's long, carefully contoured phrases...