Word: habits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still there is a remarkable absence of social distinction due to dress, speech, and habit. When you walk into a plant you can't tell who the manager is' he's dressed in construction boots and work clothes just like everybody else...
...Biscay. In succeeding generations men would skim over that water as if it were a pool, and the heroism of the early sailors on their scary voyage would resemble that of fearful children in the dark. What the explorer does by courage, the settler does by habit. What the father does by taking a deep breath, the son will do with a yawn. If Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin succeed in leaving their footsteps on the moon, the steps may soon become a path-and the path a highway...
...sympathy." He made no startling announcements regarding France's financial and economic problems, though he reiterated an oft-stated campaign theme that their solution depended on stimulating foreign trade. There was, in fact, little startling news anywhere in the conference, in sharp contrast to De Gaulle's habit of almost invariably springing a front-page surprise. But Pompidou convinced both the press and his nationwide TV audience that his government was pretty much what he had promised: competent and responsive to demands for gradual change...
...readily available than any man can digest; but many executives push relentlessly in an effort to keep abreast. To make things tougher for them, jet travel has broken down the constraints of distance. With the farthest plant or subsidiary only hours away by air, many executives get into the habit of dashing off on grueling one-day inspection trips-and thus work ever harder in the office, trying to catch up. Typically, Goodyear Chairman Russell DeYoung last year jetted 104,000 miles to keep track of the company's business...
CZECH films have been in vogue for several years now, for a variety of stylish reasons. (Political capital is surely a featured consideration; American critics have a habit of translating the Czech's frequent portrayal of stolid bureaucracy--intended as neutral moral backgroun to more intimate drama--as veiled protest against socialist rule). Most Czech films share an "unstylish", descriptive approach to reality, attempting to cast social themes in individualized dimensions (Milos Forman, Jiri Menzel). But a few filmmakers have made a radical break with previous Czech film, abandoning descriptive conventions for vivid stylization and a strong strain of philosophical...