Word: traits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Talking loudly has not got one thing to do with being black. People talk loudly because they want attention, and almost all children go through a loud-talking stage. Any large group together in public tends to talk loudly. Eye aversion is not a black trait either. The Cultural Mafia certainly must not have talked to any young black militants because they will definitely give you an eye for an eye -no pun intended. Eye rolling is too ridiculous to comment...
Since some students are convinced they are deceived and exploited, they feel and kinship for others who are similarly deceived and exploited. "The back-to-the-people spirit is at once the most distinctive, noblest and self-destructive trait within student movements." All student activism requires this streak of populism and companionship with the masses...
There can be no heroes in Potemkin, in fact no real individuals. Courage here isn't a human trait, but an idea begin embodied in a class. Potemkin ends triumphantly as history itself will. The other ships of the Czar's Navy refuse to fire on their brother sailors. And as the prow of the Potemkin cuts through the water towards freedom one shares in the exultation...
...world of rock, where a distinguishing trait of any kind is the ultimate asset, Johnny Winter is a "chicken-soup freak" of the first order. Explains Steve Paul, 27, owner of a Manhattan nightclub called The Scene, and now his manager: "Johnny is a freak in the sense of being a unique individual, and chicken soup in the sense that he is a human being and nice as well." Last November Paul read about Johnny in an underground newspaper, dashed down to see him, brought him back to The Scene, then watched him knock 'em dead at the Fillmore...
That 19th century certitude, of course, should still be supplemented by instinct, another essential trait in an age when the only rapid communications were between a man's brain and hand. Kissinger, in A World Restored, quotes a line from Metternich: "I was born to make history, not to write novels, and if I guess correctly, this is because I know." As he helps Richard Nixon make history, Kissinger will have to make some knowing guesses himself, probably fateful ones. The U.S. can hope that Kissinger, a man of brilliant intellect, will guess correctly?and that Nixon guessed correctly...