Word: instinctiveness
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...this sense, Julie's emotional power is the opposite of the kind most strong emotional actors have. It is intensive, not extensive. From Booth to Brando, audiences have loved the actor who can spill his guts in their laps. Julie's instinct is not toward dissolution, but solution. In her search for clarity she has developed a more conscious craft than most of her contemporaries have. "When Julie is at the height of her most emotional scene," says Fellow Actor Karloff, "she is always in complete control of herself, just as a fine pianist is always master...
...stamps are dandy. In one busy day a West Coast grocer ran a check on his 1,700 shoppers, found that only one failed to ask for stamps. Grand Union President Lansing Shield has a simple explanation for the stamps' popularity: "Getting something for nothing and the squirrel instinct -some people even save string." For the budget-strapped housewife who needs a new toaster or set of dishes, and can get them simply by collecting stamps for money she had to spend anyway, the plan is irresistible. One Dallas matron considers the stamp plan "a sort of painless savings...
...School of Fine Art, served as a medical corpsman and infantry soldier in World War I before returning to Cookham. It was in Cookham that Spencer had his day of revelation: "Quite suddenly I became aware that everything was full of special meaning, and this made everything holy. The instinct of Moses to take off his shoes when he saw the burning bush was very similar to my feelings. I saw many burning bushes in Cookham." For Spencer, who patterned the Virgin May after his counsin, a milkmaid, it seems perfectly natural that angels in their visitations should call...
...voices of propriety spoke in such severe terms. The liberal Manchester Guardian, which speaks with equal authority, replied to the Times with an earnest question. "Is the democratic instinct of the country in this twentieth century," it asked, "really in favor of hedging royalty in with ecclesiastical proscriptions of arguable historical and theological validity? Or does it not rather prefer to give royalty the same rights and freedoms in their personal affairs as ordinary, decent citizens? If we can have a Prime Minister.*** Cabinet ministers and judges who are 'innocent parties.' we can, without feeling unduly disturbed...
...Norman's instinct for power, and he marshaled his little world of words' like a master. In his ten productive years he wrote nearly 300 short stories, half a dozen novels, verse, plays, and a mass of journalism. The style of his stories gave a tougher skin to all fiction written since, and during his life (1850-93) he was a rich man and internationally famous...