Word: trait
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your article on the sale of the passenger ship France [April 8], you mention that "the French attach great importance to symbols of national prestige," as though this were a rather unique national trait. Let's see now-just how much did the Apollo program cost...
Huntley might have avoided some of these problems, but sophisticated p.r. maneuvering was not his strength. Stubborn independence was, and that trait communicated itself to his millions of viewers. It made him believable, the essence of success in the medium he helped form and shape...
...idiotic and absurd, but he also knows that they are a defense mechanism. In 2173 he can roll sophisticated eyes at the lifestyle of the futuristic zombies that surround him, no matter how much they intimidate him. He's more cynical than they are, which becomes a heroic trait, a kind of defiance. Allen is fighting back in this picture, and it works--the audience follows right along...
What kind of keyboard interpreter was Rachmaninoff? Like composer, like pianist. He was an unabashed romantic with unsurpassed gifts for pianistic col or, rhythmic thrust and pure trickery. But his most distinguishing trait at the keyboard was probably the pesky individual life of each of his fingers. When he wrote for himself, as in his four Piano Concertos and Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (Volume 5 in the new release), he filled his pages with thickets of notes. So clustered are they that one suspects that he begrudged even a moment's pause or silence, at least when...
...American trait-perhaps the American trait-to anticipate the future with optimism, but as 1973 drew to a close much of that confidence was ebbing, drained by a series of worries that seemed to stretch ahead indefinitely...