Word: trait
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reports (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A por trait of Britain, including talks with such nouveaux riches angry young authors as Novelist Alan Sillitoe, Playwrights Shelagh Delaney and Arnold Wesker...
...Ernst is a spry, bright-eyed artist whose most engaging trait is that he has never lost his sense of wonder or his sense of humor. The most routine experiences during his childhood in Briil, Germany-a walk into a forest, a case of measles, the death of a pet bird-produced visions that never left him. Somehow the most painful experience of his youth, his four years as an artillery engineer for the Kaiser, has become with time part nightmare and part joke. He was, he says, wounded twice at the front: once by the recoil...
...wall of the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie. The curious tourist will have a difficult time finding a notorious wartime monument: the gasoline station where the battered bodies of Benito Mussolini and his brunette mistress, Claretta Petacci, dangled by the heels. Political passion is not a common Milanese trait, and few like to recall that lynching...
Environment. After they escaped from Yemen to freedom, Israeli physicians began to make startling discoveries about them. In most ghetto communities, Jews have shown amazing resistance to tuberculosis, but among the Yemenite Jews there was soon a raging epidemic. This showed that resistance was no genetic or ethnic trait but a product of environment. Though they had lived in hovels, the Yemenite Jews had breathed dry air, relatively clean and germfree. With little exposure to TB, they had developed no resistance...