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...wilful, assertive, defiant, and suspicious attitude toward others was a mark of the delinquents. Another trait characteristic of law-breakers was an emotional explosion on the slightest provocation without regard to results. All these traits were uncovered by use of the Roracharch, or ink-blot, test...
...most surprising thing about them was the quiet orderliness of a sect whose best-known trait is getting thrown into jail. A day &. night cleanup squad of 500 Witnesses kept the stadium spotless with brooms, buckets and dustpans; pop bottles were banned from the stands. Exclaimed one police sergeant in astonishment: "That's the best-behaved crowd I've ever seen in my life...
Different as they all were, an apparently ageless youth was one trait all held in common: all of them were 60 or over; their average age was 70. And they held a common artistic philosophy: that nature is not a subject to be imitated and recorded on canvas, but is simply a jumping-off place for whatever an artist thinks or feels. Unlike their impressionist forebears, who painted what looked like windows opening onto sunny worlds, the young old men of the Paris school had long since shut the windows and painted whatever they liked on the glass...
...Harvard type," 'Cliffedwellers overwhelmingly agreed, or, as one girl said, "I can't picture the 'typical Harvardian,' but none of my dates are common, average, or normal." Harvard provides me with interesting case studies," declared a Social Relations major. "The fellows are all so different. If they share any trait, it is satisfaction with themselves...
Harvard is not a community of tightwads in most 'Cliffedwellers' eyes. Generosity was strongly praised, and when "he hasn't much to spend, but he spends it nicely--on me," the girl feels happy anyhow. Although few stated that Crimson men were stingy, they did not strongly criticize this trait. "I'd hesitate to spend my money on a Radcliffe girl, too, if I were a boy," declared one analytical sophomore...