Word: penchant
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With the stock analyst's penchant for talking about the market as if it were a not-quite-bright child, Frederick Millett, research partner of Wall Street's Good-body & Co., suggested: "I think the market is trying to find a level at which it can get some support-and hasn't found it yet." But for most economists the market's behavior prompted concern beyond its immediate uncertainty, since stock prices are among the telltale statistics that are studied as "leading indicators": they are supposed to signal in advance which way the economy is going...
...lucky chance, Resnais and Robbe-Grillet colaborated on L'Annee Derniere a Marienbad. The novelist suffered from a geometric sense of details, and the director had just the flair for composition to give those beautiful but boring paragraphs visual substance. Perhaps more importants, the author's penchant for ambiguity lent itself perfectly to the director's much-praised deftness with flashbacks...
...that they liked his new depreciation schedule (see BUSINESS), but took the opportunity to express some complaints right to his face. They asked Kennedy why he had so many Harvard-men around him (Kennedy chuckled), deplored the aggressiveness of the Government's trustbusters, criticized the Administration's penchant for becoming involved in so many collective-bargaining disputes and its habit of making too many public pronouncements about the economy. Kennedy was pleased with the luncheon dialogue, and both he and the businessmen agreed that there ought to be similar get-togethers in the future...
Then there is Miss St. John's delightful penchant for synopsizing local attitudes. She hardly realizes what snobs her heroes are. Heroine Brooks for example, is involved in the following episode: "As she made her way to the exit she was jostled and pushed by two boys behind her. She gathered from their conversation that they were in a hurry to get to Math 306, Vector Analysis. Their voices were course and vulgar. She shuddered to herself...
...subtly at ex-Convict Joseph Stalin; Victor Rozov, most censured and celebrated for a script about a disturbed youth who cannot understand how his elders could defend evil from political necessity; Vasily Aksenov, whose young jets are pictured as mixed-up idealists; Victor Nekrasov, a psychological novelist with a penchant for the bewildered and inarticulate...