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...just as students in his course say that he has lost contact with them. That is, "the nut from Topeka" is more the creation of his willful imagination than a reality. To achieve color and unity in his perceptions, Finley tends to latch on to a misconception or simple trait and then create an entire character around it. "Finley does not talk with you," runs the frequent complaint, "he talks at you." Says one senior. "I hope I never lose the capacity to listen...
...Kansas turnpike -and doesn't like it. He may seem at times to long for individuality, to talk about it and even try to display it. Nevertheless, he is disquieted to find it in himself. Sato's consensus politics is but a manifestation of this national trait...
...Troublesome Trait. Designated 6-105 by the Agriculture Department, the new wild oat, which has a high protein value, resists the rusts that destroy 6% of the U.S. oat crop every year. To eliminate its tendency to lose some of its kernels before harvesting, it is currently being bred with existing commercial varieties at Agriculture Department stations in Midwestern and Southern states. When that troublesome trait is eliminated and varieties bred from 6-105 finally go into large-scale production, they could save the U.S. farmer upwards of $26 million per year...
...curiosity is genuine-one might even say profound. "This is a guy," says the same Times man "who thinks he can learn something from everybody. This is a personal as well as a professional trait. He wants to know what you're thinking. He especially wants to know what young people are thinking." One Harvard student who has known Reston for many years says he can remember being "grilled" by him when he was nine...
...powers of the mind, the one overriding trait that makes Rubinstein percolate is rooted in his spirit. He is a hopelessly rosy-eyed, warm-blooded, bighearted, card-carrying romantic. On the Old World side, his pianistic pedigree dates back to some of the great masters and to the very origins of the instrument. Violinist Josef Joachim, Brahms's great friend, was Rubinstein's mentor. Rubinstein got his piano training from Karl Heinrich Earth, who was taught by the man (Franz Liszt), who was taught by the man (Karl Czerny), who was taught by the man?Ludwig van Beethoven...