Word: penchant
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...Sears also stresses bikinis and Lilly Daché hats, and its 51-lb., 1,716-page spring catalogue, now being distributed to 10 million customers, has a suave honey-blonde model on the cover, with a $6,500 diamond ring and luxurious mink stoles inside. Sears continues its recent penchant for stocking original art, $3,000 outboard motorboats and gold-plated bathroom fixtures...
...Cardinal. Producer-Director Otto Preminger has a penchant for grand and explosive themes: the establishment of the Jewish nation in Exodus, Washington politics in Advise and Consent, race in Porgy and Bess. Now he catechizes all the hopes, strains, doubts and pains of Roman Catholicism in one big, bad movie that millions will flock to see. Cardinal is the story, based on the late Henry Morton Robinson's 1950 bestseller, of a poor boy from Boston who rises through the priesthood to become a prince of the Roman Catholic Church. It is sure-sell religiosity...
...there is much in The McLandress Dimension which will appeal to Harvard readers. Mr. Epernay obviously knows a great deal about the University. He speaks of but does not name a certain Harvard professor of Comparative Literature who has a community-wide reputation for absent-mindedness and a penchant for sloppy dressing. He suggests also that if a list of the guests at a faculty cocktail party and a tally of their drinks could be rushed to the Harvard-M.I.T. computer center by 8 P.M., by 8:02 he could determine the exact pattern of conversation, argument, and sexual...
...easy book to read. It consists of a selection of speeches Pusey has made as President of Harvard, chronologically arranged. Pusey's speech-writing style, particularly in the early speeches is, at the least, difficult. The writing improves in some of the later papers, but throughout his penchant of polysyllabic words and rhetorical sentences makes it hard to hear what he is saying. Perhaps one example will suffice...
...President's Citation of the People-to-People Sports Committee to "a little girl" he used to know. She was Joan Whitney Payson, 60, co-owner of Greentree Stable and fairy grandmother of the New York Mets baseball team. The first woman recipient of the Citation admitted a penchant for athletes "with two or four feet," but as for herself, well, she was "strictly a spectator sport." Then, as flashbulbs popped, the "little girl" filed a smiling complaint. "Why is it," she said, "that I always have my picture taken between Eddie Arcaro and Johnny Rotz?" The two jockeys...