Word: instinctiveness
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...joined in the negotiations by his brother William, head of the family's nationwide chain, was reluctant to tamper with the Examiner, which had been their father's favorite paper as well as his first one. In the end, however, sentiment gave way to the survival instinct...
Fowler is an adept negotiator who prepares for every task with compulsive thoroughness. He can be simultaneously friendly and cautious, has a disarming sense of humor. He also possesses a broad, basic background in all areas of the U.S. economy, and a political instinct that has been finely honed during a Washington career of some 32 years, roughly half in Government and half in law practice. He has countless friends in Congress and the business establishment, and he has the ear of Lyndon Johnson, who can hardly find enough adjectives to express his admiration: "He's prudent, careful, able, loyal...
Correct Pose. The President, with his sure political instinct, assumed the correct pose: he was patronizing to his G.O.P. critics and patriotic toward everybody else. "I think the issues of war and peace in Viet Nam," he told his press conference, "are far greater than any personal differences that one might have-for that matter, far greater than any parties. The boys that are fighting the war are not divided between Republicans and Democrats. The men directing the strategies-I don't know what party they belong...
While nominated for an Academy Award in this country, Zorba the Greek has been poorly received in Europe, particularly in Greece where crowds have stormed the theatres in protest. Apparently the Greeks do not like to see their national character portrayed as the personification of animal instinct. The novel by Niklos Kazantzakis, on which the film was based, achieves a balance between the central characters so that a meaningful contrast can take place. The movie lacks that balance and so lapses into sentimentality. So fresh and unusual, with such vigorous acting and directing, if this film fails...
Prayer for Redemption. Author Tertz's aim is "to be truthful with the aid of the absurd and the fantastic." In his Orwellian fairy tale, Tertz twits Stalin and the cult of personality, Khrushchev and the cult of propaganda, the military mind, the herd instinct, and all the dizzy isms of contemporary Soviet life. He is intensely critical of human arrogance and folly, yet somehow views it all with detachment, as if from another point...