Word: instinctiveness
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...Called Love?) to appealing originals (Ophelia, Blues for Blanche), and from wistful ballads (Over the Rainbow) through funky Latin beats (Mambo Koyama) to awesome, high-speed pyrotechnics (Cherokee). Amazingly, after all his debilitating periods of obscurity and silence, his full, ringing tone was unimpaired, his melodic gift intact, his instinct for pace and structure still solid...
...upset in a traditionally Republican state. He got along so well with his Republican-controlled legislature that he was even invited to join the G.O.P., an honor he declined. Again against the odds, he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1958. He became a skilled legislator with an instinct for timely compromise and a deep knowledge of environmental affairs. He won the ultimate accolade from President Lyndon Johnson: "He's one of the few liberals who's a match for the Southern legislative craftsmen...
Furthermore, revenge has its practical uses. The Mafia, first tutored in the exquisitely touchy finishing schools of Sicily, practices who as a matter of dispassionate business; the man who ordered the hit sends a horseshoe of flowers. Athletes have some instinct for keeping retaliatory accounts as a practical matter. Reggie Jackson of the New York Yankees was brushed back by two pitches last year by Mike Caldwell of the Milwaukee Brewers. Jackson went out and throttled him. Strictly business, Jackson explained later. If he had let the pitcher get away with it twice, he would have subtly lost respect...
...Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architecture in 1973, says. "Hopefully, after people are through with all these current fashionable things in architecture, they'll come back to this," he adds. Enthusiastic about Italian-Americans establishing a national cultural center, Belluschi says, "It's the natural instinct of a society to become interested in its identity and make the most of it as possible...
Once the secret committee meetings had begun, however, the territorial instinct of individual Faculty members took over. Each professor pounced on Rosovsky's vague, loophole-ridden Core legislation, arguing that his own specialized field could not possibly be considered superflous in a liberal education. But they had little fear of being frozen out of the Core altogether because the Faculty had voted to allow 80 to 100 courses, even more than Gen Ed offered in any single year. In truth, this mulitiplicity belies Rosovsky's aim of providing a "solid and shared base of knowledge" to stem a growing tide...