Word: penchant
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...Cleo showed recently at a standing-room-only concert in London's Intimate Theater, there is more to her singing than mere vocal acrobatics. There is, for one thing, the sultry, mischievous beauty that belies her 45 years-often enhanced by her penchant for wearing flowing gowns unbuttoned to the waist. There is the emotional intensity that glints inside every wave of her finely controlled vibrato on a ballad like Night and Day. Then there is the quicksilver sensitivity to shifting harmonies on a snaky blues like Gimme a Pigfoot...
Americans have a penchant for forgiving crooks once punishment has been inflicted. Customarily, applicants for such generosity have stolen on a grand scale, or possess a fascinating personality. Willie Sutton comes to mind. Now there is James Riddle Hoffa. The former head of the Teamsters Union was released from prison by presidential clemency on Dec. 23, 1971. Since then he has been invited to appear on network television, asked his political preferences, interviewed sympathetically by newspaper reporters and given a respectful hearing by a Senate subcommittee. By the time' he makes his move to take over the Teamsters again...
Conor Cruise O'Brien continues to inform and dismay. He is an Irishman of Catholic ancestry and sympathies, whose family circle included agnostics, anticlericals and persons whom an old-fashioned liberal would call "emancipated." An exotic heritage, by Irish standards anyway, which perhaps accounts for his penchant for exposing outwardly altruistic policies that are, in his view, really selfish, cynical and exploitative...
Except for a penchant for far-left politics, the ring's organizer, Ehud Adiv, 26, seemed almost the personification of the national ideal of a young Israeli. Dreamy-eyed and bushy-haired, Adiv had been born at Can Shmuel (Garden of Samuel), a kibbutz near the Mediterranean coast below Haifa. A paratroop sergeant in the Six-Day War, he had rescued wounded soldiers under fire during the battle for East Jerusalem...
...been perhaps the single most visible personage around the Yard-attending classes, helping music professors and spending evenings in long talk sessions with students in his suite at Eliot House. "Warmth isn't the word for what I feel in coming back," he says. "I have a penchant for sentimentality, especially where Harvard is concerned...