Word: trait
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Zoditch shares this trait with Chulkaturin and the fifth horse, but he does so unconsciously--as his overinflated sense of self-importance suggests. Journey of the Fifth Horse thus seems a treatment of modern man's alienation from his work. But because the landowing Chulkaturin also suffers from alienation, the play is more than a fable about the unsatisfied white-collar worker. Zoditch and Chulkaturin and the fifth horse represent Everyman, harnessed without reason to a life which he does not understand and cannot hope to change...
...content to suggest the clearest connections to the immediate moment of his life. If there are any complaints, they are that he is sometimes a bit oversolicitous and that he reminds us too often of Kafka's literary identification with animals. Although that is a recurrent and important trait in his writing, it is not terribly oblique--by the third or fourth mention. Hayman is bating a dead horse. Otherwise, he succeeds in emphasizing his main points. If there seems to be repetition, it is only because the same few struggles dominated Kafka's life and informed his work...
...attendant to David Stockman's telling us what most of us already knew [Nov. 23], there is something disturbing about the fetish of dogged fidelity to leadership that has become so fashionable in recent Administrations. Like most other virtues, loyalty in moderation is a noble trait. Of late, however, it has taken on exaggerated proportions that are inimical to a democratic society. As currently defined, team playing does more than merely quash originality. It vouch safes us a generation of faceless robots to whom individual responsibility is equated with treason. In the extreme analysis, Adolf Eichmann...
Gaddafi's most predictable trait is bis unpredictability. "It's almost impossible to evaluate the man in rational terms," says a British diplomat. "With the coming of dawn, he may take off on a completely new tack." He is a man of mercury, quick to anger. Once when his second in command, Abdul Salam Jalloud, made a mistake, Gaddafi had Jalloud's hair shaved off. He often carries a side arm; more than once, he has lost patience and pulled out his gun, aiming it at the person who offended...
That is one trait Nitze has in common with Kvitsinsky. The son of an emigrant Polish engineer, Kvitsinsky grew up in Siberia. Assigned to East Germany from 1959 to 1965 and to West Germany since 1978, he is one of Moscow's large corps of German experts. It may, indeed, be the reason Kvitsinsky was chosen for the Geneva assignment. With his impressive command of German language, history and culture, he will be well placed to promote the Soviet Union's image as a peace-loving nation to West German missile opponents through the press and television...