Word: trait
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Paul S. Sarbanes (D-Md.), Princeton '54, broke the bank by picking at midnight, after a day on the campaign trait. It didn't hurt, though, that the person who lined him up. The Crimson's credit manager, happens to be a high school classmate...
...best cartoonists seek not just a likeness but some dominant trait that sums up the man. The result can be at war with the cartoonists' political sympathies. "I have a conflict," says Don Wright of the Miami News. "Basically, I'm rooting for Mondale, but sometimes he comes across bland and wimpish." Oliphant draws him with "sleepy eyes bringing out the boring aspects." The Los Angeles Times's Paul Conrad says, "I'd like to see him do better and don't take any relish in making him look incompetent. I'm despondent these...
...light. But what the psychiatrists are doing is more dangerous: they want to impute psychological deficiency to those in the dark about the nuclear peril. In an article on their nuclear task force work, Mack and Beardslee in effect generalize this psychological deficiency as a cultural trait of the U.S. populace: "The fact that there is so little information available about how young people feel about nuclear issues that effect their lives so vitally suggests that we adults have entered into a kind of compact with ourselves not to know. We suspect that the implications of what we are doing...
...book's most important characters have talents of a different sort. The common trait shared by all of them is a singleminded devotion to a cause. The conflicts between their beliefs form the book's underlying message. The most important of these is the Counselor himself, a magical figure who has a strange power over men that only he can understand. Then there is Gallileo Gall, a proto Marxist Scot shipwrecked in Brazil, who sees Canudos as the revolutionary commune he left in Paris in 1871. On the other side is Morcira-Cesar, the military leader who vows to eliminate...
...books of non-fiction (The Superlawyers, Korea), suggests that Wilson's character was formed by a harsh, cold father and a childhood spent on the rough edge of poverty in Idaho. Young Wilson showed a flair for manipulating other people, without undue regard for affection or morality; this trait aided his work as an operative for the CIA and the Office of Naval Intelligence. By the mid-1970s, Wilson had achieved a shadowy prominence in Washington. As Goulden tells it, scores of Government officials, Congressmen and Pentagon officers were mesmerized by the not-so-secret agent's lethal...