Word: instinctive
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...equal to its viciousness. But modern penal theory and greater concern for the individual life strongly dilute these arguments. Britain's Sir John Anderson states, "There is no longer in our regard of the criminal law any recognition of such primitive conceptions as atonement or retribution." A dogmatic, retaliatory instinct cannot justify the ultimate penalty...
...election campaign in which he made 86 speeches promising no price increases if voters stuck with Adenauer and free enterprise, the big Ruhr coal-mine managers' association had announced a stiff, $1-a-ton price boost. Berating the coal barons for "stupidity" that reflected "the political instinct of horses," Erhard told off 250 of them at an emergency meeting in Essen: "This has hit like a bomb. You have abused the government. Your price increase is out of the question...
...trying to encourage greater flexibility in baby care. They succeeded too well, he now feels: "Nowadays there seems to be more chance of a conscientious parent's getting into trouble with permissiveness [toward children] than with strictness." Keynote of Spock's latest advice to parents: "Trust yourself." Instinct, he says, prompts most parents to give children the "natural loving care" needed in routine growth. All the emphasis on the child's needs-"for love, for understanding, for patience . . . for protection, for comradeship"-has given the impression that parents have no needs or rights. Not so, says Spock...
Mighty men stride the stage, and Churchill treats them as his equals; he writes about them with the sure instinct of a man who has more than once painfully sweated out decisions as great as any of theirs. Marlborough. Nelson. Napoleon...
...words, characterizing the business world in endless multilithed news releases. Creative imagination (coupled with know-how, technical or otherwise) has supplanted Thinking Big-Brainstorm, feedback, humanation, engionomics, generalist, and Group-think--all are indicative of PR's dictionary vitality. Public relations poets pen such couplets as extinct by instinct, selection by inspection, and paralysis by analysis...