Word: penchants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BOOK On Human Aggression, the master of the human psyche, Sigmund Freud tells us that men have a penchant for violent behavior. If the society in which they live sanctions primitive primal rites like cannibalism and clubbing each other, then their anger will probably take such unhindered, natural forms. If, however, the society is more cultured and "well-developed," violence will be channelled into more acceptable, covert forms of expression namely, athletics...
Watt's bigotry deserves reprimand, as does his penchant for offensive rhetoric. But why haven't Watt's strip-mining, oil-drilling, wilderness-plundering tendencies prompted an earlier scandal? Why don't Watt's reprehensible actions provoke the same level of public outrage...
...change, at least initially, is likely to be more of style than substance. A born-again Christian and onetime Sunday-school teacher, Rios Montt, 56, had displayed a penchant for proselytizing his Roman Catholic country of 7.9 million. In Mejía, 52, the nation has a no-nonsense paratrooper and a Roman Catholic who is not likely to mix politics and evangelism. Though the Reagan Administration had supported Rios Montt's reforms, Washington withheld judgment. Said a State Department official: "We hope Mejía will continue the same programs...
Clark's failure to realize that letting the Pentagon go off on its own when the debate over Central American policy had become so heated was a blunder. But the National Security Adviser has a penchant for secrecy, and Clark, the Defense Department and the White House apparently hoped to keep the maneuvers quiet until they were well under way, then merely confirm what was happening...
...death as in life, Vicki Morgan showed a tawdry penchant for causing discomfort in high places. Last year the sometime model, then 29, filed a $5 million lawsuit against Ronald Reagan's multi-millionaire friend and adviser Alfred Bloomingdale, contending that he had promised to support her in return for having been his mistress for twelve years. She lost the suit, Bloomingdale died of cancer, and a mortified White House may have thought it had heard the last of her. But last week, after Morgan had been found bludgeoned to death in her North Hollywood apartment and her roommate...