Word: instinctively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discrimination. The Governor had promised to see "any citizens of Alabama"-and a committee of 20 petitioners, all Alabamians, had been appointed. But now George Wallace reneged. An aide met the petitioners, blandly told them, "The capitol is closed today." Then Wallace went on television and, with his unerring instinct for impropriety, denounced the civil rights march as "prostitution of lawful process." Said he: "I see that Ralph Bunche, the United Nations man, was here. He's supposed to be defending us against Communists, but today he was consorting with known Communists...
Shaken by her 1959 separation from her husband, Industrialist Giovanni Meneghini, Callas admits to having had a real "vocal crisis" a few years ago. Now 41, she explains: "My biggest mistake was trying to intellectualize my voice. I tried to control an animal instinct instead of leaving it as it was. It set me back years. Professionally, the world of Maria Callas has become a lonely world of a woman looking for her voice...
That very night, in the home of a Negro dentist in Selma, King was undergoing intense pressures and conflicts. His instinct was to go along with Judge Johnson and postpone the march. He was fearful of provoking another savage onslaught by state troopers and Sheriff Clark's men. But he was also smarting under criticism for having absented himself from the Sunday march. And he felt an obligation to the out-of-state clergymen and others who had come to march...
...Instinct and Insanity...
...short history of the Bowdoin Prizes gives surprisingly accurate view of the major controversies at the University in the last 200 years. For example, in 1877, suggested topics for the English essay included "The Essential Distinction between Human Reason and the Instinct of Brutes," "Insanity Among the Early Roman Emperors," and "The Science of the Great Pyramid, or The Evidence Afforded by the Great Pyramid of the Scientific Attainment of in Builders." In 1883, matters of science such as "Are the Atomic Weights Variable?" and "The Services of Physical Sciences in the Department of Mathematics" dominated the list...