Word: instinctiveness
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Teilhard is not addressing firm-in-the-faith Christians, he writes, but "the waverers, both inside and outside" the church, "whose education or instinct leads them to listen primarily to the voices of the earth." His book's dedication is: "For those who love the world...
With her certain instinct for fashion and lively writing flair, she won Vogue's Prix de Paris in competition with 1,280 other girls. (Her answer to one question-which three eminent men of the past she would prefer to meet?-gives another small clue to her character. She picked Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde and Diaghilev.) But Jackie regretfully declined the prize-a return trip to Paris-when her mother objected. There was a brief engagement to John Husted Jr., a socially registered Manhattan broker, but, both agree, it was never really serious...
...Personally," Painter Jean Dubuffet once declared, "I believe very much in values of savagery. I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness." No one can accuse Dubuffet of being false to his credo, for his paintings (see color) often seem to be the work of a savage or a madman-or a child. They have caused gasps of shock and hoots of derision; yet today a Dubuffet canvas can command as much as $30,000, and among critics it is now the thing to say that Dubuffet himself is the most important painter to come out of postwar France...
Author Von Kleist has the true storyteller's instinct, and most of the time he doles out such strong stuff as keeps the pages turning. That would be tribute enough. To credit him with insights he did not have is to play the familiar critics' game of he's-greater-than-he-reads...
...title had come to him only a few days before, when relinquished at long last by his father, Joseph R. Knowland, 87, who bought the Tribune in 1915 and bossed it with autocratic instinct for five decades. Bill Knowland had actually been running the paper for almost two years as the Tribune's assistant publisher. In politics Bill was known for his heavy and often inept thumb; at the Tribune the thumb has remained heavy, but it has stamped itself on the paper in a manner that by any reasonable standard can be called expert...