Word: trait
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...plenty of the Beethoven and Brahms symphonies as a musical diet for all seasons. Another is that American orchestras, when they venture beyond the classics, feel an obligation to home-grown composers. Further, they may be predisposed against British music on account of its sometimes folkish nature, a trait that does not hinder appreciation of Bartok or Stravinsky, both of whom made extensive use of folk music...
Discrediting this notion must be done carefully because myths frequently have bases in facts, and intelligence differentiation has long been a subject of research. Most everyone today knows of Arthur R. Jensen, who asserts that Blacks are less intelligent that whites on the basis of IQ scores--a trait he says is largely inherited. And his work is only the latest of many. From early in the 19th century to the present, dozens of scientists have weighed brains, measured skulls, and tested millions, sometimes concluding that the African mind stood about midway between the Caucasian and gorilla in intelligence. Though...
...Tuesday, Mubarak had won 98.46% of the vote in the national referendum that elected him President. In his address to parliament the following day, he spoke with authority and emotion, seemingly making a conscious effort to transform himself from an understudy into a national leader. "He has an important trait," said one former parliamentarian. "He listens, and in this part of the world we need a leader who listens...
Harvard draws obsessive people by the hundreds. The average Harvard undergraduate seems distinguished by the fact that he is not average in at least one area; the area may be physics, grade-grubbing, writing, egomania or self-loathing. Most everyone here, for better or worse, developed a trait or interest in childhood that made him a little different...
...reflects that very amplitude of intellectual riches and experience. Debts of Honour is Foot's ode to his political and literary heroes, in 14 fond chapter-biographies. Those idols range from Benjamin Disraeli and Thomas Paine to the Duchess of Marlborough and Jonathan Swift, His heroes usually share one trait: a determined foresight. As he writes in his profile of Disraeli, "the good Tory": "If anything is really to be done in the world, it must be done by visionaries; men who see the future, and make the future because they...