Word: penchant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...curtain-raising Gamblers is a tricky little farce, exhibiting a subtle brand of card sharps who operate in ever-widening circles of duplicity. Apart from their penchant for peculation, Gogol's characters are not a very lively bunch, so it is all to the good that director William Kelley has decked out his production with all sorts of bizarrerie, most notably makeup in vivid shades of red, blue, white, and green. Set designer Roberta Weiner has provided black walls for her hotel room, and it is lit (by John Herzog and Charles Kennel) mostly with stark white shafts...
...Dollar Grin. Abroad, the U.S. penchant for size and splash brings on snide cracks that the American car is the symbol of American culture: a "dollar grin for all the world." But the real experts-Europe's stylists-are quick to defend the U.S. car. Italy's great Pinin Farina, who designed the beautiful Lancia Aurelia and Alfa Romeo, calls American cars the most comfortable in the world. For the U.S., with its enormous distances and comparatively cheap gasoline, the big. powerful U.S. cars are well designed. The driver who hopes to slip into 50-m.p.h. expressway traffic...
...with a strategy for taking the Administration bill directly to the Senate floor, thus bypassing the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, Mississippi's James O. Eastland, and his Senate civil-rights bill guaranteeing trial by jury. Even if successful, this strategy could hardly bypass the Senate's proud penchant for unlimited debate. Probable outcome: more Southern oratory and a full-dess Senate filibuster that could doom civil-rights legislation for still another session...
...TIME, Feb. 11), the findings showed that more than 50% of the TB victims came from homes broken by death, divorce or separation before the patients were 18; the divorce rate among tuberculars was four times the U.S. average. Most TB patients had cut short their education, had a penchant for moving from city to city and changing jobs often-long before they knew that they had the disease. The TB patients also had more than their share of emotional illness: 20-25% had psychoses, and 36% had neuroses...
...been living by his wits for the last ten years-selling an interest in an interest to get an interest," said a friend last week. As every wheeler-dealer knows, the great secret of success is knowing when to stop. Had Odie Seagraves ever learned to curb his penchant for just one more deal, he would have been one of the wealthiest men in Texas, worth some $150 million. But as every born gambler knows, the hardest thing in the world is to give up the dice...