Word: hasn
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...habits die hard," said John McEnroe last month. Not that he hasn't tried to kill them off. The once supreme tennis star and undefeated champ of testiness on and off the court, McEnroe dropped out of the game six months ago, vowing to change his attitude -- and his game -- for the better. But when the reformed McEnroe made his long-awaited return to the pro circuit last week at the Volvo International tournament in Stratton Mountain, Vt., some of his old habits surfaced again...
...belief and common purpose and even catastrophe to shake people out of self-absorption. As Lee Baum, the author's surrogate, Neil Daglish is touching, introspective and believably American. But the play's most convincing voice is Miller's, admonishing us: "There has never been a society that hasn't had a clock running on it." His American Clock records harrowing midnights and piteously false dawns...
...like the West hasn't dealt with this problem before. There have been murderers, there's been segregation and there have been those who have rejected the fundamental ideas that make the family of Western nations the most liberal and free among all the peoples on this great green globe of ours which we swear to protect, preserve and make peaceful. Why won't South Africa budge? Don't they care about Reagan's threats to expel them from the West...
...they have done." Others point to the U.S. lead in satellite technology and the feats of America's Viking Mars landers and Voyager planetary probes. "We tend to move in leaps and bounds, and they move incrementally," says Nancy Lubin of the congressional Office of Technology Assessment. "The race hasn't ended...
...much giving. It's not that he's holier than thou, it's just that he has his own personal agenda." Says Bradley's media adviser, Michael Kaye: "He's everyone's friend but nobody's friend. He's so concerned about what he wants to accomplish that he hasn't joined the club...