Word: instinctiveness
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...schizophrenic structure and the reasonable, though uninspired and often outdated men who attempted to manage it. Former President Grayson Kirk, for example, is viewed as an aloof, poorly informed man who rode around in a black Cadillac licensed GK-1. By contrast, S.D.S. Leader Mark Rudd shows a jungle instinct for the weakness of his elders; he emerges as a troublemaker, possibly useful as a goad in a good cause, but essentially a shortsighted opportunist...
Segal, whose comic gifts are evident even in melodrama, is allowed a few light moments in the murky pseudo-sensitivity. But whenever the risibility reaches visibility, it is quashed by Director Irvin Kershner's instinct for vulgarity. Most of the time Segal lurches self-sorrowfully around town as if he had just received six bullets in the stomach. The rest of the cast, including such proven caricaturists as Keenan Wynn and Sterling Hayden, similarly behave as if they were dispensing painful truths instead of numbing fictions...
...would herald the destruction of capitalism were all about him. What fell from Chambers, as he explained, was not merely Communism but "the whole web of the materialist modern mind-the luminous shroud which it has spun about the spirit of man, paralyzing in the name of rationalism the instinct of his soul for God, denying in the name of knowledge the reality of the soul...
...allowed him little time to get to know his students. With his strong sense of personal morality, Pusey stoutly defended the rights-and jobs-of Harvard professors who drew the wrath of his onetime Appleton neighbor, Joe McCarthy. But in a different situation, his steadfast independence and his instinct to protect Harvard proved costly. Faced last spring with the S.D.S. occupation of University Hall, Pusey refused to negotiate and angered a large part of the Harvard community when he summoned police without consulting faculty and student leaders...
...realize he needs a nursemaid and not a chimp specialist," said Miss Hastings. "Every single aspect of my maternal instinct has come out since he's been here," she added. "I'm just not in a hurry to be a mother...