Word: traite
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Blind Spot. Bland persistence is the hallmark of the Arkansas Democrat, who was once denounced by Harry Truman as "that overeducated Oxford s.o.b." But though onetime Rhodes Scholar Fulbright, 60, has long been described as an enigma, the trait that has made him a Senate storm center for two decades is not hard to define...
...when we learn how most of them behave we believe in them even less. The vegetarian and his wife, for example, have one important character trait. They "believe passionately in the integrity of all the world." Although they have spent their lives crusading vainly and have witnessed a great deal of violence and cruelty, they are convinced that everyone is basically good. Smiling, they distribute money to armless, legless beggars and cluck sadly at racial violence in the South. When they are pushed around for no reason by expressionless secret police and their innocent friends are beaten and locked...
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...American citizenry. It abounded in hackneyed clichés that have been seen many times in less respectable magazines. The position of the Mattachine Society of Washington is that homosexuals are citizens and deserve treatment as such. They are, for the most part, ordinary people with only one trait in common: sexual orientation...
Another homosexual trait noted by Bergler and others is chronic dissatisfaction, a constant tendency to prowl or "cruise" in search of new partners. This is one reason why the "gay" bars flourishing all over the U.S. attract even the more respectable deviates. Sociologists regard the gay bar as the center of a kind of minor subculture with its own social scale and class warfare...