Word: instinctively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...silver money, cajoling it with protective tariffs and other favors, Boss Roraback did with controlled budgets, legislation favorable to industry, in Connecticut during eight gubernatorial terms. But public resentment against his dominance never rose very high because, though a monopolist, he was honest and not rapacious. His Yankee instinct was for pay-as-you-go government and that is the kind New Englanders like. One time when Boss Roraback was in the South, Governor John H, Trumbull and the Senate Finance Committee chairman agreed that Connecticut must have a bond issue, announced it. An angry telegram from Roraback summoned them...
Americans long ago made their choice between Dictatorship and Democracy: "In the U. S. the choice is made—made by reason and instinct. . . . But there is another question. Can tolerably satisfactory relations ever in fact be established between peoples free and peoples in chains? Is not the gulf too wide? . . . Intercommunication across the abyss has become almost impossible." Dictatorship and democracy literally do not speak the same language: "How, specifically, are we to discuss art with people who say 'art' and mean 'propaganda,' to whom music by Mendelssohn is not music, and poetry by Heine...
...must be concerned with liberty abroad, but liberty begins at home. "We must hold tight to legal prescriptions and procedures, trust only to leaders committed by instinct and belief to the defense of civil liberties, and deal summarily with those who band together to destroy them. We must guard zealously the rights of our scholars and teachers to carry forward the stream of civilized thought . . . and protect the rights of assembly and speech and the freedom of the press...
Sole clue to the affair was a drunk who yesterday afternoon entertained residents of Leverett and Lowell Houses whose windows face on Plympton Street with a lengthy, dissertation on "Sex and The Monetary Instinct...
...Heaven than that they are to be inhabited here and hereafter by his Joans and his Peters?" But Virginia Woolf's criticism is usually appreciative. Her critical motto is a quotation from Sam Johnson that echoes her own literary practice: "Above all, he is guided by an instinct to create for himself, out of whatever odds and ends he can come by, some kind of a whole-a portrait of a man, a sketch of an age, a theory of the art of writing...