Word: instinctiveness
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...tribe. But now the crowds are made up mostly of traders and their customers, not fleeing refugees. In Nnewi, the Cool Precious Restaurant for Good Diet is back in business. The breweries are working again, and cold beer goes swiftly at $1 a bottle. The Ibo commercial instinct is reasserting itself everywhere-from the $20-a-night Bristol Hotel in Lagos, where Ibo businessmen throng to re-establish their contacts, to the smallest villages, where young boys sell cigarettes for a few cents' profit. "They have learned a lot from the war," a Yoruba from Nigeria's Western...
Most of that night I spent meeting the people on the floor living with me. They put the boys on the fourth floor where they occupy one end of a corridor. In a basic instinct for survival we moved some of our furniture out into the halls and declared that the halls belong to the people. The girls who came to visit and say "welcome" retired by midnight and the rest of the night I spent meeting the boys...
...detractors often accuse Vice President Spiro Agnew of having an instinct for the jugular. Actually, Agnew aims slightly higher. During the Bob Hope Desert Classic three months ago, he hit a drive that bounced off the head of Golf Pro Doug Sanders. Last week the game was tennis. The Vice President and Peace Corps Director Joseph Blatchford were paired for the Administration in a doubles match against a congressional team of New York Senator Jacob Javits and Connecticut Congressman Lowell Weicker. Blatchford stood poised in the forecourt, waiting for the Vice President's serve. It arrived−bouncing...
...sometimes sweet, more often jerking and spastic−are the raw material this remarkable company plays with. As for words, "Whatever I know, I know it without words," says The Serpent. Tactile and immediate, the Open Theater uncannily reflects the present-day audience−inarticulateness, frustration with words, an instinct to feel rather than explain, a deep nostalgia for a preverbal lost innocence...
...freezing an action at its most expressive moment. Connoisseurs with the special expertise of Hank Greenberg's son Glenn praise the split-second accuracy of his baseball players. "The guy," says one admirer, "has a stroboscopic eye." But Verkade goes far beyond mere reportage. He has an instinct for attitude and gesture that invites comparison with Degas and, in another medium, Daumier. He can catch the slump of an old man's shoulders as he sits alone on a park bench, waiting for nothing; the sweet awkwardness of a young mother holding her baby...