Word: instinctiveness
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...Home, that the West is fully prepared to fight a nuclear war for the freedom of Berlin. Whether or not the Russians have really only just learned this fact, the U.S. has implicitly accepted it for a long time. For many Americans, this decision may be merely emotional or instinctive. But behind the emotions and the instinct lies a carefully reasoned moral case. That case is set out with great clarity in a symposium of some leading Western intellectuals published by the monthly Commentary. The debaters do not specifically deal with Berlin but with the basic question: Can Western civilization...
...accident in 1945, when one of FDP's founders recruited him for party chores. Mende's eloquence and organizational ability propelled him rapidly to the party's top echelons. Though the Free Democrats pose as successors to the old German liberal parties, Erich Mende is by instinct and outlook a conservative who has turned to good advantage his distaste for extremes. By contrast, the party leadership embraces former Nazis, old-school German liberals, and a group with the sinister-sounding name, "technicians of power." In less than two years as its chairman, Mende has not only kept...
...across the dinner table and asked him to explain, as an obviously direct descendant of Adam, how the first man and woman "found out the Art of lying together." Adams did his best "to set a brazen face against a brazen face," explained it was a simple matter of instinct. But later upon reflection he wrote: "If such are the manners of Women of Rank, Fashion and Reputation in France, they can never support a Republican Government. We must therefore take great care not to import them into America...
Whistles & Boos. With true Gallic instinct for the wrong moment, the National Assembly last week thrust its own challenge at De Gaulle-almost as if to show that it was not moved by the assassination attempt. Since last April, the Assembly had chafed under the constitution's Article 16, which gave De Gaulle power to brush aside the debates of the Deputies as "Fourth Republic games" and run France as he pleased. To protest against De Gaulle's emergency powers, the Assembly chose a purely technical issue. De Gaulle's Premier Michel Debre bluntly refused a special...
Hearst's "sure instinct for vulgarity" found first expression on the San Francisco Examiner, a limp rag that his father, George, who had made millions in mining, had taken over on a bad debt. In 1887, at 23, ambitious Willie wheedled the Examiner from his parent. In his very first issue, he ran a tearjerker on Page One about foundlings in a lying-in hospital, together with a juicy story about the trials of one Job Cram-whose affliction was a heavy-drinking wife. Hearst also wooed his readers with sure-fire crusades, among them a protracted campaign against...