Word: instinct
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Guided by his lifelong friend, Artist William Glackens. Barnes began to buy up French impressionist paintings by the boatload. Although many of his early purchases were mistakes, he showed taste and a fine instinct for good investment. He was one of the discoverers of Modigliani. In one moment of sound judgment he bought 60 Soutines for $50 apiece-long before Soutine was well known. In his acquisitions, Barnes was uninhibited by ethical considerations. When his friend Leo Stein, brother of Gertrude, offered to sell his valuable collection of impressionist paintings through Barnes, the collector repaid Stein's early kindnesses...
Pollyanna. Showing an infallible instinct for what the public wants but would be better off without, Walt Disney has blended freshets of onion juice and a Niagara of drivel into a movie tearfully true to the Eleanor Porter novel. Hayley Mills is excellently horrid in the lead...
...necessary evil, to be endured on all the lower levels of being, good to the next to the last drop, but to be abandoned with indecent haste before true insight or the face of the living God." One way to the sanctification of society is through ritual. "By every instinct in them, men desperately need to think and move together, ritually. One of the sources of modern anxiety is surely that people get into too many situations where they do not know what people will think or do next." Ritual is not to be confused with mere ceremonial. "The rhetoric...
...prove a real moneymaker for Delta, which ranks as the nation's sixth-biggest line and one of its sharpest. Founded as a crop-dusting line 35 years ago by C. E. Woolman, 70, who still runs it with an old flyer's seat-of-the-pants instinct, Delta was the first to put the pure-jet DC-8 into service last year. Now, with six of the big jets flying, Delta is all set on its long-range routes, which stretch from New York south to Venezuela and west to Fort Worth. The 880 should...
...distilled Victorian sentiment to its treacly essence, and readers of all ages lapped it up. More than a million copies of Pollyanna were sold, and by 1920 the book had been made into a Broadway hit and a Hollywood movie starring Mary Pickford. Forty years later, with his infallible instinct for what will fill the public's sweet tooth. Walt Disney has taken Pollyanna off the back shelf and, at a cost of $3,200,000, has photographed the little horror in throbbing colors, bloated it with big names (Jane Wyman, Richard Egan, Adolphe Menjou. Karl Malden, Agnes Moorehead...