Word: penchant
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...passion that is far from being sated, however, is the Czechoslovaks' irrepressible penchant for thumbing their nose at their occupiers. In a week when officials were solemnly (and often no doubt unhappily) marking the 25th anniversary of the Soviet-Czechoslovak Friendship Treaty, bookstores reported a heavy demand for a satirical poster: under a heading taken from a popular Christmas carol, "We bring you news [from Bethlehem]," five angelic boy carolers are pictured holding newspapers-each the party organ of an invading Warsaw Pact country...
...Hanratty has it all," says one scout. "He can throw long or short, soft or hard, on a high trajectory or on a line." Others praise his faking and peripheral vision. They say that he has "the natural cockiness of a good team leader." His faults-a penchant for "throwing into a crowd," and tipping off a pass play by dropping his right foot back just before the ball is centered-are correct able. His recent knee injury is a minus, but could work as a plus by exempting him from that other draft-military service. Always on the lookout...
...mixture of a strong Brahmsian influence with overly thick scoring in all but the last movement. The work occasionally possesses a deep sable ambience characteristic of Strauss and is permeated with his incomparable horn writing, but the material is for the most part as boring as a bog. Strauss' penchant for opaque writing, as if he feels guilty when someone isn't playing, only redoubles the wearisomeness of the piece. In passing, while the oboe soloist played well, he was irritatingly clamorous...
...case, starting as a happily married, witty college professor, Tattersall explores the U.S. penchant for nerve-racking upward mobility by trying it in reverse. In an excess of whim and Weltschmerz, he runs through a job in advertising ("I stink, therefore I am"), a stint as a successful TV singer, and on down through door-to-door salesman, street peddler, gardener, handyman and tramp. He winds up living in a run-down tenement, selling canned "fresh air" door to door to help take care of a mumbling mongoloid boy and a drunken mongrel basset hound. One night he gets...
...instead of waiting for the agency truck to pick them up. Meanwhile, they will leave a record of their comments on the generation gap, their values, a personal account of what they loved most. Set down by Kate, this testament is liveliest when it reflects Marya Mannes' own penchant for high-class invective. During their sex talks, the painter howl-, "Don't tell me the sexual revolution was made by those pre-nubile, fur-bearing match-sticks...