Word: penchants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Motion maintains a non-p.c. perspective about the crotchets that caused such an outcry when this biography, along with Larkin's collected letters, was published in England last year: the private man's coarseness, his penchant for pornography, his blasts against women and "niggers." Much of this, Motion makes clear, was boisterous role-playing, especially in matey letters to friends like Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest...
...accompanied John Paul on this trip. "We cannot relativize what is absolute. Can we alter the gift God has given us? I think not. That is the message of Denver." Perhaps. But few observers believe the Pope's superstar charisma alone will overcome America's penchant for a pick-and-choose Catholicism...
...Sweet's penchant for infusing his lyrics with religious images is evident on Knowing People, in which he asks, "Are you made like God/ When you start to bleed/ Do you really know/ What it is to breathe?," and on Evergreen, where he declares, "You started to pray/ But all your prayers they brought no answer/ Your faith...
Many council members, confounded by the repeated scandals, said they were particularly disillusioned by the council's penchant to trip over its own feet--particularly because when the council did work on constructive projects, it worked well...
...claiming that the letter was unfair and unfounded. From what we know about Epps, we tend to agree. There was nothing improper about his actions during Junior Parents' Weekend; Epps shouldn't be expected to unquestioningly capitulate to tokenist demands. We can only guess, and hope, that Epps' alleged penchant for speaking in foreign languages comes from an earnest, if slightly misguided, attempt to make minority students feel comfortable. But we can say that the two Epps initiatives the AAA presidents so confidently disparage, the handbook and the audit, are at least genuine attempts to address this campus's race...