Word: trait
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...Disneyland until the fireworks, then Mather. First thing you notice about a girl: Confidence and competence. Your best pick-up line: Hi, I’m Nick Noyer. Best lie you’ve ever told: This is my first time, too. Favorite childhood toy: A mirror. Sexiest physical trait: My metabolism. Favorite part about Harvard: How truly genuine the students are. Describe yourself in three words: Boisterous. Blunt. Beautiful. In 15 minutes you are: Figuring out a way to only have class on Tuesdays . In 15 years you are: Producing “Pirates of the Caribbean...
...About My Mother, Pedro Almodóvar's Oscar-winning film of 1999, identity is not a stable character trait. A nurse becomes a prostitute, a nun becomes pregnant, a prostitute becomes a saint and several men become women. The much-anticipated stage adaptation of the film, now playing at the Old Vic Theatre in London until Nov. 24, doesn't settle on a single form either. Containing a film sequence and several plays-within-the-play, it is, like its transgender characters, a type of crossover - a trans-genre. What it wants to say through its densely layered metadrama...
John Cloud's "Failing Our Geniuses" correctly identified a troubling trait in our public education system [Aug. 27]. He stated, "In a no-child-left-behind conception of public education, lifting everyone up to a minimum level is more important than allowing students to excel to their limit." It's no wonder we're witnessing a proliferation of charter schools, home schooling and private schools. In my state, an alliance of politicians and the teachers' union controls all funding and curriculum for kindergarten through high school. As a result, teachers and administrators are given little incentive to be creative...
...personality trait, shyness probably ranks as one of the more benign characteristics that someone can possess, but new research suggests that at least some forms of shyness may have violent, and often deadly, consequences...
...that depression can have biological roots. But they persuasively argue that many instances of normal sadness--the kind that descends after you lose a job or get dumped--are now misdiagnosed as depressive disorder. They also point out that the human capacity to feel sad is an evolutionarily selected trait that we might not want to drug away. They raise a great question: What if sadness is good...