Word: instinct
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...concentrated attack on the vice-President, Schlesinger scores some very decisive points. He successfully illustrates that Mr. Nixon can conveniently hold two opposing sides of the same issue and come out unscathed by public opinion. And the wholesale indictment of Nixon's lack of taste ("an instinct for dignity") is being proved almost every day by Mr. Nixon without any help at all from Professor Schlesinger...
...fact, one of the most interesting features of Monday night's episode was the inhibitions both men seemed to feel; both Nixon and Kennedy have been known to exhibit an "instinct for the jugular" in dealings with their party colleagues, yet neither was willing even to try to finish off his man before 70 million television viewers. Although a little ruthlessness may well be what the Presidency needs (and although both candidates have in the past displayed adequate supplies of this rather debatable virtue), ruthlessness does not sell well on television, so Kennedy and Nixon have thus far avoided...
Piracy & Patronage. Earl had a sharp political instinct and, unlike Huey, the courage of a bull. He fought Huey's childhood battles for him, and later after he followed Huey from their Winnfield homestead as a traveling salesman, lawyer and political guerrilla, he fought some of his older brother's political battles for him too (once Earl nearly chewed off the finger of an opponent, another time lunged at a man and bit him in the throat). Yet, even at the peak of Huey's power, Earl was still in the shadow, forbidden by the Kingfish...
Obscene Fury. Unprepared for such ground breaking, the Latino delegates reacted almost by instinct. They condemned Herter's plan out of hand as a mere trick aimed at letting Trujillo off, accused Herter of being taken in by Trujillo's current show of democracy (last week Trujillo's latest puppet President proposed an amnesty for political crimes...
Critics of American civilization, like most specialists, tend to be narrow in their diagnoses of what ails the U.S. David Riesman in The Lonely Crowd worries about other-directedness and herd instinct. William H. Whyte in The Organization Man examines the loss of individuality caused by modern corporate life. Vance Packard in The Status Seekers sees the trouble in a craving for the symbols of importance. Frank Gibney, a journalistic G.P., has a simpler, more sweeping and engagingly old-fashioned diagnosis: the whole place is getting to be crooked, just plain crooked...