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...Thanksgiving mood testifies to an enduring-and endearing-trait in the American character: a willingness once an election is over to downplay old divisions and give a new leader a sporting chance to show what he can do. It is a trait for which to give abundant thanks...
When Iowa's Culver played fullback for Harvard's varsity, he was known as pugnacious, a trait he's retained through his career in the world's most exclusive club. Culver should feel lucky he's never been tamed, for he's had to drawn on every political instinct in this year's battle against Republican Charles Grassley, the Moral Majority candidate in the Corn State...
...affected by whether or not Father does the dishes or Mother drives a truck? "Unwittingly, the feuding experts and conflicting experiments testify to the truth: we will never have a Sears catalogue of sex differences because human beings are too diverse for labels and measurements," writes Pogrebin. "For every trait studied, the differences within each sex are greater than the average differences between the two sexes...
...trait that seems to transcend the change of government is antipathy for the Soviet Union. As Bing says, "All hate the Russians. All Chinese hate the Russians. It has a long origin in history...
...which is odd considering that Reeve's singular trait is hyperkinetic innocence Reeve bounds his way through the movie like a retrieve pup, always deferential, smiling at widows and being nice to children. He seems to be a snidely conceived modern-day Horatio Algier hero, neatly market-researched--the ultimate triumph of American Boyhood...