Word: penchant
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...claiming that the letter was unfair and unfounded. From what we know about Epps, we tend to agree. There was nothing improper about his actions during Junior Parents' Weekend; Epps shouldn't be expected to unquestioningly capitulate to tokenist demands. We can only guess, and hope, that Epps' alleged penchant for speaking in foreign languages comes from an earnest, if slightly misguided, attempt to make minority students feel comfortable. But we can say that the two Epps initiatives the AAA presidents so confidently disparage, the handbook and the audit, are at least genuine attempts to address this campus's race...
...Eszterhas quickly displayed his penchant for squaring off against Hollywood heavyweights. He withstood the demands of F.I.S.T. star Sylvester Stallone for a share of screenplay credit. Several years later he butted heads with studio executives over the ending of the courtroom drama Jagged Edge. His greatest confrontation came in 1989, when he decided to leave the Creative Artists Agency for rival ICM and, according to Eszterhas, CAA honcho Michael Ovitz threatened to have his "foot soldiers who go up and down Wilshire Boulevard each day . . . blow your brains...
Edward comes off as an annoying troubadour with a penchant for spouting verse and a seemingly encyclopedic knowledge about the origins of everyday things. One keeps hoping in vain for the famed English reserve to come into play...
...rage and embarrassment: In the May 19th issue, Mr. Stephen Frank wrote a story whose eye-catching headline proclaimed: "HDS Food Safety is Questioned: Cook Died of AIDS." This tabloid-like text reeks of the spirit of the illustrious Mr. Hearst who, as we all know, had a particular penchant for yellow--journalism, that...
...Appiah suggested that Black and Latino students performed less well than their Asian and white counterparts because racist incidents and innuendoes make it hard to concentrate on academics. In an effort to diffuse the phenomenon of Asian success, president of the Asian American Association Joan Cheng '95 pathologized the penchant of her Asian American peers to achieve academically. As an Asian, she explains, "if you don't do well, you feel guilty...