Word: instinctiveness
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Paley owns 103 paintings at the moment, of which about 40 are major works. They are mainly by Postimpressionists, and he, with an instinct for the durable, bought most of them cheaply in the '20s and '30s. He has a Derain that he found on the floor of the artist's studio in Paris, covered with dust. Among his Matisses is one that Matisse originally refused to part with, but, says Paley, "I wheedled...
When it comes to creativity, Paley has an instinct for doing what is commercially necessary. Four years ago, when ABC's mass marketing, quality-be-damned techniques were sending tremors through CBS and NBC, Paley met the challenge by buying away what he considered the mainspring of ABC programming-Jim Aubrey, then ABC vice president and known in the trade as "The Smiling Cobra." In his new job, Aubrey has gone all out for ratings, often at the expense of prestige. CBS's supremacy has not been won without some deserved criticism, and NBC can fairly claim...
...customs. Sometimes he incubated a clutch of eggs and kept the chicks isolated so that they accepted him as their mother and apparently thought other humans were just big chickens. He listened carefully while their baby peeps changed to adult chicken language, and found that it came from instinct and never varied appreciably. Roosters raised in isolation from other chickens always crow correctly without learning how; isolated hens make correct clucking noises as soon as they feel ready to brood...
...more than of grace. The 19th century frantically insisted on propriety precisely because it felt its real faith and ethics disappearing. While it feared nudity like a plague, Victorian Puritanism had the effect of an all-covering gown that only inflames the imagination. By insisting on suppressing the sex instinct in everything, the age betrayed the fact that it really saw that instinct in everything. So, too, with Sigmund Freud, Victorianism's most perfect rebel...
Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, founder of the New York Daily News, had a sure instinct for the reading tastes of subway riders (he was one), and he built his tabloid into the biggest and most prosperous daily in the U.S. Some detractors say the News got there by peddling only the most marketable wares-crime, sex, sob stuff and baby pictures-with professional skill. But even the sober New York Times could take lessons from the News's equally professional ability to cut the "important but dull" story down to size. The News reader gets just about everything...