Word: trait
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Theorizing that musical talent is an inherited trait, famed Italian Otolaryngologist Leopoldo Fiori Ratti gave musical aptitude tests to the parents of the Vatican's Pueri Cantori choirboys and other children picked at random. At the Second International Congress of Human Genetics in Rome last week, he reported that 60% of Pueri Cantori parents had high musical aptitudes (though not necessarily training or interest), while only 20% of other parents showed high scores...
...Reporting on hairy ear rims around the globe at the Rome genetics meeting last week, Dr. R. Ruggles Gates of London showed that the werewolfish trait is sexlinked. Only men have hairy ear rims, and nearly all of their sons inherit growths. On the other hand, their daughters have hairless ears, and so do those daughters' sons. The chromosome responsible: Y, the male sex determinant...
Wild Strawberries, Bergman's best, also argues that the measure of man is humanity rather than knowledge or achievement, but does so in a relaxed and skillfully developed study of a man who is made understandable. But throughout Virgin Spring, obsession is the key character trait. Ingeri, the slut who, in envy of the girl, casts the spel! that precedes her rape and death, excuses the murdrers by saying Odin has possessed them. The parallel to the householder's mindless slaughter of the murderers and blind dragging of his followers back to the scene of his daughter's death...
...power and effectiveness of half the critical mass. The public, in its approach to the performer, cannot effectively substitute legislation for an understanding consistency of attitude which will no longer allow it to delight in the intense romantic creativity of a man's art and fear this trait in his political beliefs...
...neighbors: a bedraggled platoon of half a hundred men and women, who moved into a rundown, three-story, red brick building that once was a National Guard armory. White and black, young and middleaged, criminals and innocents, artists and loafers, the unlikely assortment shared one trait: they were narcotics addicts determined to kick their habit for good...