Word: traite
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...article never gets with it, either in terms of music, style, or personalities. The "Harvard Science" feature begins like a melodramatic parody of Time magazine--"It was the year of the rocket. . . . It was the year of the sputnik. . ." The science item is rather confusing and its most distinctive trait is a number of large pictures of dull grey buildings...
...genie come out. No audience, no magic; and the cold glass eye of the camera is worse than no audience to an exquisite empathist like Kaye. But even in the worst of his pictures-and Merry Andrew is considerably better than that-Comedian Kaye exhibits the common trait of the greatest clowns, who are not funny because of what they do but because of what they...
...this big, wide-ranging movie, scope is stressed at the expense of depth, and there is no time to develop any very complex characters. The most interesting of the lot is the fanatic British colonel, all of whose actions stem from one trait: conscientiousness carried to the point of mania. Alec Guinness plays him with deft stiffness. His torture scenes are appropriately ghastly, and he resists the temptation to clown. William Holden gives his usual performance as a soldier who escapes from the prison camp and returns to blow up the bridge. Jack Hawkins and Geoffrey Horne are his fellow...
...University's purpose is to incubate a brood of college politicians, a year in the Union might be an experience to be desired. It is also probably true that a year together in the Yard would develop more "Class spirit"--if anyone at Harvard had such an unlikely trait as "Class spirit...
...outstanding trait about the U.S. college student of 1957 is that he is not acting at all as a college student is supposed to. His professors cannot decide whether to clap or wring their hands over him-whether he is dull or simply more mature than his predecessors...