Word: traits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expedition that exhumed the mummy of Egypt's long-lost King Tutankhamen, have supported countless hungering artists and endowed many hospitals. To be a Rothschild has usually meant the possession not only of money but of the ability to enjoy it fully; this has resulted in a family trait of diversity. From the fruitful Rothschild family tree, heavy with shrewd financiers, have come half a hundred outstanding legislators, scientists, sportsmen and war heroes-as well as a few playboys. But as many Rothschilds have lived out lives of luxurious ordinariness; the family shrewdness and sophistication has not been evenly...
Over the years complaints piled up about Leibowitz's court, and in one way or another, most of the grumblings reflected the same trait that got Sam into needless trouble in Alabama: he simply could not help putting his opinions and emotions loudly on the line. In the courtroom he referred to an accused criminal as a "rat" or an "animal." Occasionally he broke into a purple tirade. When a big-time gambler who had talked freely to a grand jury later clammed up in court, Leibowitz roared: "I'll give you a thousand years, if necessary...
...heavy shoes and grey apron with a big knife cleaning sugar beets on the convent farm. "She's wonderfully well adapted to Dominican life," says a fellow sister who acts as her manager. "She's very joyful, and holy joy is the principal trait St. Dominic wanted to infuse in his order...
...compelling phenomenon called machismo. In its simplest form, machismo is the gaudy bravado of the bullfighter, the outdoor he-manliness of the gaucho, the straightforward heterosexuality of the playboy. "The kind of man that men follow and women chase" is how one Peruvian woman defines it. But the trait goes farther than simple male ego. It turns arguments into blood feuds, business dealings into tests of strength, and heroic revolutionaries into ruthless tyrants. Says the Mexican poet Octavio Paz: "One word sums up the aggressiveness, insensitivity, invulnerability and other attributes of the macho: power. It is force without discipline...
Though James excelled in the hunt for values, he was less successful at attaining coherency. This failure caused him considerable anguish. It was primarily a personal trait against which he struggled and not a necessary consequence of his philosophic doctrine. One the contrary, James felt that the formal doctrine--over the long run--contained a theory of truth as rigorous as that of any positivist. But, in addition to the demand for rigor, it stresses man's freedom and ultimate moral responsibility. If it were not for his optimism, one might call James an existentialist. And the optimistic style...