Word: instinctiveness
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Author Henry may perhaps be remotely autobiographical when he has his hero start the book by saying: "I thank God that I have always possessed an instinct to jot things down on paper." In any case, while his book is marred by certain immaturities of style and some inexcusably bromidic Latin and French quotations, he himself has managed to jot down a not-too-implausible tale, and some fairly deft characterizations. In between his other activities, he has evidently given some thought to Harvard's race question also, for echoes of that problem appear throughout the story...
...subtler, less violent and less obvious form of getting away with it. The latter form of yellow journalism is usually practiced by those who go about in a cloak of respectability, wrap themselves up in a scarf of fairness and wear the hat of honest citizenry. Freud coupled the instinct of prudery with the instinct of license. Yellow journalism caters to both groups. The crude form attacks the character of a man without giving his defense, and serves as pimp to the sensation lovers of the community. The refined form attacks a man's opinions without giving...
...restriction in order to preserve the national homogeueity will be obvious. Whatever may be its benevolent humanitarian desire, this country can no longer afford to endanger its own future as a united nation by a blindly generous welcome of all those who present themselves at its gates. The more instinct of self-preservation alone must force a reluctant closing of the doors...
...says, or rather put them to producing something and we'll all be much better off. Let's abolish the waste and guarantee every man who is willing to work a decent living, and then we'll get rid of the "unnatural" inflation of the acquisitive instinct which makes men try to "do" the public out of every thing they can. We can then put all the people in the insurance business at work to produce something; we can do the same for 95% of our judges and lawyers - if there is no longer private property...
...Dominican pantheist, smiter of scholastic Aristotelianism, philosophical ancestor, in some regards, of Spinoza, is known "to every schoolboy," at least in the Macaulay School. The blind self-slain Chancellor, the great Dominican heretic, Copernican, metaphysician, the supreme schoolman, are strange comrades, vivid to the imagination. Two of them are instinct with the Virgilian tenderness, in that city of Virgil, of "mentem mortalia tangunt." --New York Times...