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Vorenberg remains similarly cryptic about his plans for the Law School after he takes over as dean July 1. In keeping with his penchant for carefully thinking things out, he says only that "it is too soon to tell" what changes, if any, he'll make. "I will take the next four months to talk to people and consider ideas...
McKellen, who comes from "a comfortable, comforting, loving family" in Britain's industrial North, departed Cambridge with a penchant for theatrical excess that earned him quick notice and a few severe warnings. One reviewer called him "a show-off," and McKellen took the criticism to heart. He started his own troupe, the Actors' Company, in part to counter this "tendency to act in an overly individual way." Later he accepted Nunn's repeated invitations to join the R.S.C., where he further modulated his gifts and moderated his flamboyance. Says Nunn: "I think Ian matured, and his presence...
...bags) of Jelly Bellys to Washington each month. They go to the White House, to Capitol Hill and just about every Government agency. While John F. Kennedy favored Callard & Bowser toffees, and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan would seldom venture abroad without his kippers, neither statesman's penchant influenced popular taste as Reagan's Bellys have...
During the progress of Sutherland's affair with the suitably under-ripe beauty of Blanche Baker's Lolita, Albee's penchant for moralizing asserts itself, as though, to make up for his exploitation of this theme, he decides the audience must be scolded for its interest. He chooses a moral that seems both believable, and indeed, close to Nabokov's own intentions in Lolita: Humbert's love for Lolita is the futile dream of a man doomed to try to recapture his own lost past. But Albee's Nabokov character must trudge to center-stage and tell us all this...
Very few of the president's individual sentences carry any meaning. His syntax is jumbled, and his penchant for pronouns makes it difficult to follow the rhetorical conversations he constructs with unseen political opponents. He occasionally explains his vagueness with an unabasned admission of never having thought about a particular question before...