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...most countries, youth gets passionately political when it tastes higher education and rapid social change. Yet American collegians, taken as a whole, remain unconcerned: even the current political revival on U.S. campuses probably does not involve more than a tenth of all students. What feeds this peculiar American trait, and will it ever change...
...LONELY CONQUEROR, by Willi Heinrich (379 pp.; Dial; $4.95). British Critic Cyril Connolly once complained of the novelists who "can only sling a few traits on to the characters they are depicting and then hold them there. 'You can't miss So-and:So,' they explain, 'he stammers and now look, here he comes−;"What's your name?" "S-s-s-so- and-s-s-s-s-so" ' ' The novel of racial misalliance is often given to such trait slinging, and The Lonely Conqueror is no exception. The hero, Sergeant John Baako...
...detailed investigation by Sheldon Glueck, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law, and his wife, Elcanor T. Glueck, research associate in criminology, will assist case workers by identifying the source of each trait...
...Individuals differ in the degree of permeability or affinity to the elements in the social and cultural milleu in which they find themselves and to which they are subjected. It is the concatenation in the particular child of factor-trait influences from divergent sources that determines whether, at a certain degree of pressure, resistance to anti-social expression will break down...
...would be helpful for him to know that one of the traits linked to delinquency, stubbornness, does not vary among boys of different body builds. Thus, whether a boy is essentially athletic or physically fragile makes little difference. Another helpful discovery for the parent-substitute to know is that while a father's unacceptability as a pattern for emulation does not in itself contribute to formation of the criminogenic trait of stubbornness in his son, its presence does enhance the boy's delinquency potential