Word: personality
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Letter Writer Horvitz [June 17] wonders what an academically minded person can bring to the military. It's simple: his time...
...result is unbounded chaos. Ports are hopelessly clogged, government services all but paralyzed, businesses wildly inefficient. A visiting American economist recently warned that the time may soon arrive "when a person spends all his time and energy going from one job to another, so that he gets almost nothing done on any of them...
...only in the legal but in the social context, privacy is a relatively new value (and is still rare in much of the non-Western world, which either does not appreciate it or cannot afford it). One Greek word for a private person was "idiot," which, then as now, carried implications of ignorance -or at least a large indifference to civic concern. The tribe knew no privacy, and even the lord of the feudal manor lived in a swarm of servants, children and relatives, often all of them sleeping around the edges of the big hall where the fireplace...
...campaign would end on July 17, the day the signatures are due. The office launched signature "blitzes" on Fall River, Lawrence, Brockton, Worcester and cities across the state. Veterans of the Hughes campaign--in which over 100,000 signatures were collected with 74,000 required--reported that one person could be counted on to get 200 signatures a day. But a day in Fall River netted only 600 signatures among ten people, and simple arithmetic showed that with three weeks remaining and a validation rate around 60 or 70 per cent, 600 a day simply wouldn't do the trick...
...near the manners of my mother," his performance is rather effeminate, which has the virtue of meeting half way that of his twin sister Viola disguised as a boy. Alas, their speech shatters any illusion that they could possibly be siblings, let alone the same person. Stuart's is refined, musical, obviously British-trained; Joan Darling's is edgy, ugly, obviously American. Again and again she murders the meter; and, in her beautiful "patience on a monument" speech and elsewhere, she seems not to understand a word she is saying...