Word: instinctively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weird one, thinly settled with religious fanatics, half-breed Indians, escaped murderers. Not for three years did she return to New York, free again, with her girls to support. She worked on newspapers and the stage. She met and married Carl Bender, a Danish artist, who sympathized with her instinct for writing and encouraged the project of her present work. The New York to which she goes back in its pages is the New York of her girlhood, speculatively remembered. That she had lately to send Mr. Bender home to Denmark, an incurable invalid, did not lighten her labors...
Young Publisher Vanderbilt soon set his visitors right. He had been to Europe primarily to ask plastic surgeons to cure his jaw of a war-gas infection-which they had failed to do. The interviews he had obtained were "incidental," simply the result of his "reportorial instinct." (The visiting reporters nodded, impressed.) He had flown about Europe, seeing Lloyd George in England, Briand and Caillaux in France, Mussolini in Italy, Pilsudski in Poland, and the onetime Kaiser himself at Doom. The one-time Kaiser had been bitter towards the U. S., had blamed General Pershing (with whom Publisher Vanderbilt...
...like the animals. I can feel the future as it approaches. Some instinct guides and warns me. My blood speaks! I must listen to my blood." Thus Signor Mussolini is wont to explain the promptings of his extraordinary political intuition- promptings which he has ever translated into action with disconcerting speed. Last week these sanguinary omens may be presumed to have fired his brain afresh. While most Italians slept he harangued a meeting of all but one of his ministers. By morning a sheaf of Cabinet decrees were issued which bade fair to alter the whole course of daily life...
...necessity for religion. There followed the massive metaphysical webs of Fichte, Schelling and Hegel in Germany. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) was the first German to assume Kant's metaphysics and proceed to something new. A sex-starved bachelor, he opened men's eyes to the importance of instinct, despite his pessimism, which argued: there is a life-force (Will) which makes us reproduce, then leaves us to struggle on; only intellect can save us, by objectifying self and studying life detachedly until the "wisdom of death" comes. He also saved Genius from being eliminated as a factor...
...between indecency and art? Does Eugene O'Neill deserve the same latitude as Shakespeare? Obviously if a hidebound Grand Jury is given rein much classic and modern expression will be throttled. Obviously if the lid is lifted altogether unscrupulous producers will grow fat pandering to the peep-show instinct of the populace...