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...better use to upgrade weak, racially-imbalance schools." The overemotional association of militancy with outside agitation aside, Mr. Koivumaki's argument fails to tell us how, without "stirring up agitation," school districts are to be forced to spend more in the ghetto. To an extent, the conservative penchant for order and calm muddies the logic of the article...
...Chronic Change and the Cult of the Present," he argues that the dynamism of our culture and technology make it unwise to settle on a permanent personal orientation. Then he echos this thought twice in succeeding paragraphs (illustrating not only his habit of repeating himself, but also his penchant for listing nearly synonymous adjectives in series...
Despite a warning from the Fulbright Committee not to talk politics, Miss Levine, with her penchant for public opinion polls, had spoken to many Kashmiri...
Skeleton Search. Last week, because of his pathological penchant for bragga docio, Schmid was in jail, charged with the murders of two daughters of a Tucson surgeon. Along with two friends - one a 19-year-old girl - he was also accused of murdering a third girl. Police, who had found the two sisters' skeletons on the desert, last week were still searching for the third...
...LIFE OF DYLAN THOMAS, by Constantine FitzGibbon. The Welsh poet's penchant for mooching, thievery, drunkenness and womanizing is not spared; yet this fine biography is an affectionate portrait of the man "who may have sponged on his friends economically, but spiritually it was more the other way about...