Word: rasa
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...DiCaprio's face was a blank check on which his character forged a career in duplicity. At other times, as in Gangs of New York, a rage can pop out like a monster in a lake. His face is too soft to be a tabula rasa; it is a pillow on which DiCaprio can embroider surprising emotions. That's why he is an actor, a gifted one, even more than he is a movie star...
...Tabula rasa. Forget about John Locke and consider instead the 2003-2004 Harvard men’s basketball back court. Having lost Elliott Prasse-Freeman, Brady Merchant and Patrick Harvey, this squad is starting with the blankest of slates...
...important sense, the argument over nature and nurture has been resolved. For centuries, the nature camp said that personalities are born, not made, that our character is pretty much formed by the time we pop out of the womb. The nurture people countered with the metaphor of the tabula rasa: our mind starts out as a blank slate, and it's how we are reared that determines what gets written on it. Modern science, though--especially our fast-growing understanding of the human genome--makes it clear that both sides are partly right. Nature endows us with inborn abilities...