Word: inborn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Crucifixion and Resurrection; nonetheless, he believed in "God"-a Butler-made vital spirit of whom he Shavianly said: "God is not so white as he is painted, and he gets on better with the Devil than people think." Like Carl Jung, he believed in a collective unconscious-an inborn "memory" of human habit and behavior handed down through the generations. The art of living, he held, was to keep a tricky but common-sensical balance between this vital inheritance and the equally vital capacity for adaptation...
This did not mean that the U.S. citizen had lost his inborn distrust of authority or his dark certainty that politicians would take his gold fillings unless he guarded them with his life. In general, he had been determined to vote against somebody or something ever since the two big party conventions last summer. Having made his decision, he had then subsided into comparative, not to say lethargic, calm...
...should with diligence take note of the spirit of man, of which there are really two, that are inborn...
...patriotic values, but on Darwinism, anthropology, ethnology, Freudianism (one of Author Wylie's wilder notions is that some children should be placed on an island, "reached by tunnel from the mainland," where feeding-bottles and other nourishment will hang from bushes-giving peeking scientists a chance to study inborn faculties at their most virginal). Only when the resulting adult is thus "aware" and "conscious in the instinctual sense" will he experience true "illumination," "inward experience...