Word: traites
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...what is true and great in a man's life. It would probably be easier and more pleasant to dispense with the critics altogether and let music work out its own future with the public, but making value judgments about what we like seems to be an inevitable human trait. (The more we like a thing, the more greatness we are led to claim for it); so we nominate a number of men whose job it is to live on more intimate terms with the respective arts than is possible for anyone else, and let them do the bulk...
Gloom. The evidence of national pessimism, a trait entirely alien to the U.S., is exceptionally well documented. It is a gloom that is not due to fear that the Allies will lose the war-72.5% expect them to win it (only 7.0% actually expect Hitler to win). But after the war 69.9% expect that people will have to work harder, 60.5% that pay will be lower, 43.2% that prices will be higher, 60.7% that there will be a great deal of unemployment...
...This trait is a nuisance for her adoring, rich, hard-working publisher husband (Ronald Colman). For Caroline's heart is warm and wide and susceptible to dilettant males who are forever seeing "the essential Caroline," to flashy Latins looking for a wealthy woman who can "ride and shoot and rope a steer." Her capacity for bemused self-deception keeps Husband Colman busy wooing her back from each butterflight...
...heart of the Blue Grass, he is a colt of whom Kentuckians might well be proud: a handsome golden chestnut with a tail that almost sweeps the ground. But Whirlaway has inherited a tendency to run out (veer away from the inside rail) at the turns. That trait cost him several important races last year (he was defeated nine times in 16 starts). But Whirlaway proved that he is a stretch-running fool...
...Bill embodies powers which the people believe will be relinquished when the emergency is over; they believe in other words, that while Mr. Roosevelt may become a sort of dictator, as his opponents claim, he will be a benevolent and a temporary one. But the Ellender controversy suggests a trait in the President which is universally despised as a characteristic of Adolf Hitler: the failure to keep one's promises. If the campaign promise was sincere, there is no reason why it should be excluded from the Bill now. Its rejection would be a sinister tendency toward Hitlerism in America...