Word: instinctiveness
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...Mike Mansfield to Foreign Relations and Missouri's Stuart Symington to Armed Services. Cautioned Dick Russell: "You are dealing with the most sensitive thing in the Senate-seniority." But Russell was not quite right: the most sensitive thing in the Senate was Lyndon Johnson, and his instinct told him to go ahead. Says he: "I pushed in my stack." Not only did Johnson somehow make senior Democrats feel like statesmen in giving up their preferment, but he won the lasting gratitude of the younger Senators.* Says Mike Mansfield, now the assistant Democratic leader: "He gave us a chance...
...living Germans of today "good Germans"? As one who did not have to wait to be sorted out for the ovens, but who was lucky enough to get to the U.S., I feel we have done too much to build up Germany. A Nazi killer instinct cannot be destroyed in one generation. It will take a thousand years...
...When I get into the gate, it's instinct mainly. I hold both reins in one hand, crossed in my palm. I twist a forefinger around a lock of the horse's mane. I never have a tight rein because the horse would rear up. He has to have a free head, but you have to have that pull on your finger. You have to sense when the gate is going to spring. When I leave the gate, sometimes I take my finger off the horse right away, sometimes not. You keep the horse loose. Then, out of the gate...
...picture is all these things too-and more, and less. Like the book, it profits from Greene's instinct for weaving the fictional web, for making life look marvelously complex and always come out even. But life is sometimes very odd indeed, and the story sometimes invites a suspicion that Greene has rigged his game -a suspicion certified by the ease with which the Englishman wins it, and by the oafishness with which the American loses. It is a cheap debating trick, and it cheapens the picture as it did the book. But the picture, in the last reel...
...rate reporter, for the New York Times, he is not a professional newsman. He works the opposite side of the street. His boss is the President of the U.S. and his duty is to present Ike's words and works in the best possible way. Jim Hagerty, by instinct and training, is a professional presidential press secretary-and as such, he is the first of his kind...