Word: instinctive
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Munch overcame the brilliant painter's instinct to paint brilliantly. No one looking at his Self-Portrait with a Wine Bottle would be likely to exclaim first of all about Munch's technical skill. The fine painting is rigorously subordinated to the subject: a man, angry, lonely and lost, who stares from the deep perspective of the canvas...
...been swept into the rhetorical realms of women's rights, regimentation, Freedom of the Individual, Harvard's parity or superiority to Midwestern universities, etc. We have suddenly become a Burning Issue. We are reminded: (1) Beanies are cute (2) Beanies are ugly (3) We are indulging a degrading herd instinct (4) We are following the dictates of Free Enterprise and by-golly-have-a-right-to (5) Women have no business at Harvard at all (the Reactionaries) (6) Women must be supported in their battle against a totalitarian exclusion polciy (the Marxists) (7) If we keep on like this...
...Rape is the product of an illness of the sexual instinct. Incarceration or capital punishment will not adequately solve the problem. Rapists should be segregated from society, analyzed and treated...
...Competitive Instinct (See Cover...
...moans about his "troubles," heard from his pinnacle of success, make some fans snicker with envy or disbelief. But the fact that his troubles stem largely from a walnut-hard competitive instinct, an inch-short temper and a worry wart as big as a baseball, makes them no less real...