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Quite apart from the subject of sex, the procession of Presidents after Kennedy has included men of rather peculiar and divided psyche. Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter were personalities utterly different from one another, but they all shared, to some degree, an odd, self-thwarting trait. Each became his own worst enemy...
...University--and a local barbershop--are used against him in the majority opinion. Who better to address Class Day than someone who used his Harvard education to try to bring about change in the world? Next, the majority charges him with campaigning. This proves the Duke is ambitious, a trait that should not set him apart from a crowd of Harvard seniors. The majority might trust an intelligent audience not to be brainwashed. We think we can discount the possibility of the Class Day crowd abandoning Tercentenary Theater en masse for a round of New Hampshire campaigning. If Dukakis launches...
Despite their varied interests, the winners seem to have one quality in common: a social conscience. That trait is perhaps best summed up by Louisa Smith, a student of public policy at Harvard-Radcliffe College. Before leaving for Washington with her fellow achievers to meet Vice President George Bush, who had expressed interest in chatting with this year's winners, Smith talked about her commitment to the inmates of the prisons and mental hospitals she has been visiting since high school. "I may never solve all the problems I have seen," said Smith, "but I cannot walk away from them...
Past research has shown that abnormal dopamine levels play a role in Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia and possibly narcolepsy, but the Stanford research appears to be the first to link the chemical to a normal personality trait. "There's nothing pathological about shyness," says Psychiatrist Roy King, who headed the study. He concedes that research such as his could lead to new drugs that modify individual personality, but finds the concept "scary." Besides, he says, "society needs both extroverted and introverted people...
...fall in love not only with the shapes and colors of the animals but with their motions, their curving and infinitely varied gaits. The zebra moves with a strong, short-muscled stride. It is a sleek, erotic beast with vigorous bearing. The zebra's self-possession is a likable trait. It is human habit to sort the animals almost immediately into orders of preference. The animals are arranged in people's minds as a popularity contest. Some animals are endearing, and some repulsive. One wants to see the lion first, and then the elephant and after that the leopard, then...