Word: habits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are only two large clubs in Boston proper which feature jazz, but they don't make a habit of doing so weekly. The clubs, Paul's Mall and Jazz Workshop on 733 Boylston St. will sport the headliners. It won't be unusual to see McCoy Tyner, Sonny Rollins, or even Charles Mingus playing at these jointly--owned establishments. But these bookings are about as innovative as the management gets...
...negotiations in the Middle East have forced Kissinger to alter his plans for attending the session, his speech will be delivered by recently appointed U.N. Ambassador David Moynihan. Like Kissinger, Moynihan has long favored a comparatively hard-line approach to the Third World, especially toward the latter's habit of blaming the industrial world for many of its afflictions. In a controversial article in Commentary magazine, Moynihan chided the less developed nations for pursuing a "politics of resentment...
...provides for you. Beware: there are always a large number of freshmen in the class who use these lectures strictly to out-psyche you. Particularly avoid those who claim they have heard of the lecturer, or understand the subject matter. If you are still in the old high school habit of attending every class, this could be a good time to break...
Plato banned poets from his republic, but it was a Pyrrhic triumph. Versifiers have a habit of outlasting politicians, and there is a nucleus of truth in Shelley's romantic declaration, "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." From time to time the acknowledged legislators agree; for one brief, shining moment, Robert Frost even shared the inaugural platform with John F. Kennedy. That, however, was a greater victory for p.r. than for poetry. The recent snubbing of Solzhenitsyn by the White House suggests that things have returned to the Platonic state. Which is where they should be, according...
...think "So what?" But the government has this habit of going to work every day, and things are happening. Frank Sargent, DuKakis' liberal Republican predecessor, left the incoming administration saddled with a deficit of roughly $760 million in a budget of $3.3 billion. The state of Massachusetts is in almost as bad a situation as New York City--worse in terms of options for the future--so if there were ever an opportunity and a ready-made rationale for change, you would think this was it. Many expected just that, Dukakis, who distinguished himself as a somewhat cool and analytical...