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...American penchant for going it alone is also apparent in two more general commitments of the Administration: the so-called Reagan Doctrine of support for anti-Communist guerrilla movements and the Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars...
Students attack what they call the CRR's lack of adequate due process procedures and its penchant for quashing political beliefs which the University considers disruptive. They pepper discussions with often-distorted references to those who stood before the group during the early 1970s...
There is, and as usual, the British have found it. The British also had a problem: a class of people with inordinate prestige, influence and money (conferred there, as here, for reasons inexplicable and by now unremembered), and with a penchant to turn them into political power. In Britain, this class goes by the name nobility, and the combination of its idleness and ambition has always been a problem...
...Harvard festivities. It is ironic that Charles, the Prince of Wales, should be appearing at this event--symbolic of America's self-determination to govern itself and create a principled, beacon of democracy in a new world; yet this President and his advisors cannot put aside their penchant for divisive, ideological game-playing to recognize an institution that predates the founding of this great republic. Andrew I. Wolf...
...ordinary bourgeois could cheerfully unite: true love is the conjunction of concupiscence with affection." This seems a rather obvious thesis to attract all the firepower that Gay devotes to it. And though it is doubtless true that Victorians in love behaved much like anyone else--lacking only the modern penchant for boasting--Gay also shows us that the Victorians and their Continental or American contemporaries were oddly different. Their new influence disturbed and bewildered them, and they often diagnosed themselves as "nervous...