Word: traite
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...Everyone knows the Beats were rebellious: they drifted around the country in search of "kicks," abandoning all shreds of the traditional male role as husband, father and breadwinner. But how many people connect the Beat form of rebellion with the subsequent reclassification of "responsibility" as an unhealthy, even neurotic trait...
...tactic is working is only part of the story. Lots of oppressive measures work, but it is assumed that people's resistance, community objections and philosophical protests are integral aspects of the situation, and will be reported. By punishing thousands of people without granting them a trait the government has succeded in serving its own interests and quelling dissent without the critical dialogue and messy public debate usually associated with courtroom proceedings. Especially in conditions like these, the writer was obligated to consider more than merely the bald fact of increased compliance. It would seem routine to interview a student...
...botched invasion also revealed an attractive trait in Kennedy: an openness and candor, and a freedom from that neurotic, squirming evasiveness, the deflected gaze or outright mendacity, that one came to expect from one or two subsequent occupants of the White House. Kennedy made no effort to escape blame for the folly, to cover it up or excuse it. We made a terrible mistake, he said. Let's go on from here...
...bullfights revolts us, and even our own ancestral tradition of duelling gives us chills. Instead, we prefer something more in the vein of a game, where sportsmanship and fun--not victory and blood--are the central factors. The all-American solution to what we consider an un-American trait of violence has become football...
...word a number of people use to describe Knowles is "smoothie," a trait born partly of the 18 year old English chemist's Oxford education...