Word: instinctiveness
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Downes: "... a first-class Hoffmann . . ." Said the Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson: ". . . stage sense . . . musical intelligence and (of all things!) an instinct for expressive coloration . . . maybe we have a real artist around...
John Marin, 76-year-old dean of U.S. watercolorists, opened his paragraph bravely enough, but his description dwindled off into a thicket of punctuation dashes. "The good picture- No one wonders at more than the one who created it. Made-with an inborn instinct,-in which time begets an awareness -and these periods of awareness are- The-red letter-days in the Creator's life...
...local country-club greens are going to be green again, and the recent mobs of skiers will metamorphize into knickered golfers, for it is the season when "every clod feels a stir of might, an instinct within it that reaches and towers, groping blindly above for light...
...kind in the country; a similar unit in Central Square closed down last year. Outside of its traffic control duties, the booth attracts a clamoring stream of information seekers. Burke is constantly assailed by people requiring guidance of all kinds. He is now able to direct traffic by instinct as he answers these questions; "but it was hard as hell at first," he concedes...
...Shibe Park. Gridiron markings were blotted out under four inches of snow. But television, radio and newsreel companies had paid $33,000 for rights to the game, and a postponement would have been costly. Commissioner Bert Bell ruled that first downs would be decided by referee's instinct instead of tape measure, and assigned extra judges to call out-of-bounds plays...