Word: instinctively
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...they disclose themselves and imply their own backgrounds. Oftener, however, the higher technique that would have saved him from some of his confusions and changes of key, for example, and that each man must learn for himself in his chosen profession, evades him, and naturally enough. Then his theatrical instinct that carries character, episode and feeling across the footlights, and his command of emotion save him. The best of the playwrights in their twenties see and feel, much more than they design and elaborate. Most of their characters are bound to be sketches, as Mr. Sheldon's in the main...
...does Harvard alone attest his greatness. His mental precision and unusual capacity for lucid and apt discrimination have enabled him to treat public questions with singular authority and with an unerring instinct for the aspirations and needs of society. He has touched no subject without illuminating it; he has stood firmly for collegiate and civic righteousness; and so sane have been his counsels, so masterly his power of statement, that he not only commands today the attention of America, but he is honored by scholars and thinkers throughout the world. He has set an example to all by the simplicity...
...abate his ardor in its defense. His intellectual, as his personal, sympathies were wide. His glad recognition and generous encouragement of merit endeared him to workers in many fields. He was a just censor, a wise counsellor, not sparing of himself if he might help others. His critical instinct was distinguished for its delicacy, his taste refined to severity, his judgment clear and sober. His mind was ripened into the temper of a true cosmopolitanism by study of the best books, by knowledge of his own and of other countries, and by acquaintance and enduring friendships with leading...
...literature dwindles to almost nothing. Unless there is some stimulation to follow these lives of inspiration when they are offered, it is highly probable that they will be entirely neglected. In actual work, reporting of every description is the basis of all journalistic work, as it develops the news instinct and trains one to get at the facts as nearly and as quickly as possible...
...Song for Twilight," by Mr. Wheelock, is surprisingly mature in technique and genuinely individual. It is poetically satisfying; indeed the second and third stanzas are instinct with are potency. Mr. Porter's "Matter of Conscience" is a trifle too self-conscious to be completely successful, and neither of the two figures emerges from the scholastic vagueness of the story's atmosphere. Yet the style is one of case and experience...