Word: trait
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Moliere, a Parisian, early acquired the habit of observation, and being possessed of the faculty of condensing into a single scene the striking traits of a whole class, made his works reflect the whole panorama of society. Jealousy is a trait to which he devoted much attention. Laying his finger on the spot most open to ridicule, he pilloried social characteristics that are as prominent now as then. He was a true precursor of the Revolution, in that he attacked the nobles, not as individuals, but as a class...
Professor Lefranc spoke of the greatness of Moliere, whose name stands in the front rank of the world's great men of literature. Today he is more popular than ever before, both in France and elsewhere. His optimism is the trait that bears the closest resemblance to the American national character...
...successful engineer, he said, should possess endurance. He must have the power to work hard and persistently. Not only must the successful man have this power, but he should show it in his zeal to do disagreeable tasks. This trait always recommends a man to employers...
Emotion is a French national trait, he said. Frenchmen take an eager interest in their relatives, and even in the families of their friends, an attitude which differs widely from the one common in England and this country. Their spontaneous intensity and unity of family feeling is founded on a recognition of the laws of nature which bind irrevocably parents and children...
...selection of judges chosen to pick a team to represent the University. Upon every such board of judges is one who is an authority on platform sheaking. The most approved manner of presentation is the deliberate and undemonstrative in distinction to the oratorical or campaign style. The common trait of the best University debaters of the past has been a faculty of combining with solidity of argument an objective style of delivery--the faculty of talking to an audience rather than at it--by means of which a closer contact and sympathy is established between speaker and listeners...