Word: trait
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like the work of every great creative artist, Beethoven's music evokes different deep, personal responses in different people. The one trait he symbolizes to everyone, however, is freedom-his own freedom as an artist, all men's freedom to live their own lives. Beethoven's loftiest hymn to that core symbol is Fidelio, which today has a special pertinence to those European countries, as Austrian Conductor Karl Böhm puts it, "that experienced foreign occupation and domination within the recent past." Thus it was thoroughly proper that the Met's new Fidelio was entrusted...
...school principals wear three-piece suits, stern expressions and are totally devoid of humor. Good shows often result from giving the lie to stereotypes, witness ABC-TV's Room 222, which features a handsome black history teacher (Lloyd Haynes) and a rumpled, comfortable principal (Michael Constantine), whose strongest trait is a sense of underplayed humor. It works; in the current season, Room 222 has appeared consistently among the ten top-rated programs, and deserves...
...began early in Birmingham. Enoch Powell's constituency is in that area. One of the reasons many of the pimps are immigrants is that they have been discouraged by the prejudice they have met in more legitimate enterprises. Miss Mendelsohn said, however, that there seems to be an underlying trait shared by the girls on the game and their men. They find the routine of industrial life too restrictive. "That they choose to live the life they do," she said, "is an indication of a kind of strength, not weakness...
...flank under attack: the Army served him with court-martial charges for insubordination late last year. Lawrence, it seems, was preparing a newscast when a sergeant asked him to drive some soldiers to their quarters. Lawrence refused and, according to the charges, was also "disrespectful in language." Such a trait would hardly seem to fit him for the Army's next move, which was to make Lawrence a chaplain's aide...