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...idiotic and absurd, but he also knows that they are a defense mechanism. In 2173 he can roll sophisticated eyes at the lifestyle of the futuristic zombies that surround him, no matter how much they intimidate him. He's more cynical than they are, which becomes a heroic trait, a kind of defiance. Allen is fighting back in this picture, and it works--the audience follows right along...
What kind of keyboard interpreter was Rachmaninoff? Like composer, like pianist. He was an unabashed romantic with unsurpassed gifts for pianistic col or, rhythmic thrust and pure trickery. But his most distinguishing trait at the keyboard was probably the pesky individual life of each of his fingers. When he wrote for himself, as in his four Piano Concertos and Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (Volume 5 in the new release), he filled his pages with thickets of notes. So clustered are they that one suspects that he begrudged even a moment's pause or silence, at least when...
...American trait-perhaps the American trait-to anticipate the future with optimism, but as 1973 drew to a close much of that confidence was ebbing, drained by a series of worries that seemed to stretch ahead indefinitely...
...trait in any population at any time there is more or less variation. This variation arises because different individuals differ from each other genetically and because they have experienced up to that moment different environmental histories. In an attempt to partition the causes of the variation, geneticists have introduced the concept of heritability. Unfortunately, there are two different quantities, both of which are called "heritability" in genetics, but which have quite different meanings and consequences. There has been a considerable confusion between the two in the popular literature of the subject, a confusion that has considerable consequences and to which...
...came to be made by a professor! Precisely the same error is made in arguments about the genetic inferiority of the working class. By referring over and over again to the "high heritability of I.Q.," as if I.Q. had a heritability which was a fixed property of the trait, Herrnstein completely obscures the fact that all measures of heritability of I.Q. are estimates of the heritability within social classes, and indeed within families to a very large extent. In no case ever reported is there an estimate of heritability that can be referred to the whole white population...