Word: instinctiveness
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...improvement-indeed to the whole idea of material progress as an absolute value-have been stirred, too, by a continued, if unequal, philosophic conflict over the nature of man. In one view-long predominant and customarily summed up by Descartes' dictum, "I think, therefore I am"-thought and instinct are separate and man at his best is a rational animal. In the other view, often pilloried under the pejorative name Romanticism, thought and feeling are rightly and forever intermingled. Systems are to be avoided, individuality is stressed-which often made Romantics rebels against society. Man is naturally in tune...
...modesty should not be taken too literally. As a framemaker, he concedes that his business is taste. By that he means suiting his style to that of the painting he works with. As an artist, though, he must combat the instinct to be tasteful. "Taste," he argues, "is created by artists who don't have taste. It is through their convictions that they create the taste of other people." Thus, he refuses to frame his own pictures. "If my pictures are going to live," he says, "maybe the next generation will find a sympathetic way to frame them...
Murder and War. Probably the most controversial studies of man and animal -notably by Konrad Lorenz-have to do with the biology of aggression and its implication for modern society. Evolution indicates that the aggressive instinct tended to preserve order within a tribal structure. But most human aggregates have gone beyond the tribe. And perhaps as an inevitable result, aggression no longer keeps but strains the peace. In man's simpler and less crowded past, aggression was both useful and effective; in man's present, it can lead to such thoroughly unanimal behavior as murder...
Petulia, a sad and moving film by Richard Lester, shows its director capable of insight into his characters and instinct toward his actors. Lester's cinema is generally defined by tricky and overcontrived camera gymnastics (Petulia has its share of this, and none of it is good)--but here we have him leaving his camera rolling when his actors begin to groove, plainly sacrificing editorial cleanliness for dramatic punch. Petulia's occasional messiness is much to Lester's credit: the film ends at least six times in its attempt to chronicle a relationship realistically, but just before its strange construction...
...tight. Tough." If he were not a junior, another top contender is Jake Scott, Georgia, 6 ft. 1 in., 190 Ibs. He is a blue-streak threat on punt returns. When he becomes available, some scouts contemplate using him as a running back because of "his skill and instinct for using blockers...