Word: penchants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Israel is understandably uneasy about the prospect of having a radical Palestinian state next door, considering the violence for which some Palestinian groups have shown a penchant. Last week those fears were once again reinforced. In London, the P.L.O.'s representative. Said Hammami, was shot dead by an unknown assailant. Only four days earlier, a short distance away, two passengers in a Syrian embassy car had been killed by a bomb. Hammami was known as a moderate who in the past had been savagely criticized by radicals for refusing to demand the liquidation of Israel. Fortnight ago, there were...
...Soviet's penchant for bed-hopping deals a rude blow to the naive Emilia, who is further jolted when she learns of her mother's dabbling in adultery with Rosie (Anthony Zerbe), an old conductor-buddy who is currently between marriages. Emilia drowns her sorrows in a sleazy Manhattan bar one afternoon before a matinee, affecting a Russian accent while two good ol' boys from out of town try to pick her up. Her inebriation leads directly into an all-too-contrived comic device wherein Browne totters about the stage during the performance while mentor Bancroft winces in the wings...
...this Rigoletto's failings, Dexter must bear most of the blame. Yet Levine, despite the beauty and power of his conducting, cannot be totally absolved. It is the peculiar penchant of both to want to concentrate as much action as possible at the front of the stage. In Dexter's case the practice seems to have developed during a brilliant career on the legitimate stages of Broadway and London's West End. For Levine it seems to be a case of wanting to bring the singers closer to both the audience and his own podium. They...
Indeed, recent history has shown Restic's confusion to be valid. Yale's tradition, Dartmouth's attitude and Brown's penchant for being a bully all provide Harvard with the necessary is seduced at the pre-game tailgates and the results speak for themselves: two Princeton upsets and a sluggish Crimson triumph in the last three years...
...similar trait made his private life seem actually private in contrast to the typical Hollywood star's. He had his troubles, heartbreak at times in his marriage to hard-drinking Dixie Lee, who died of cancer in 1952, and again in dealing with four sons with a penchant for mischief. In 1957 he married Kathryn Grant, 30 years younger than he, and started another family. Crosby never claimed to be an exemplary singer or an exemplary anything else, and once he at tributed his good reputation to his practice of admitting his sins only to the "father confessor...