Word: instinct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hunting instinct rising in him he arose and took form a box one of the firecrackers he had saved for such a special occasion. It made a terrific noise, exciting the other three and driving the creature out of his haunt towards a bedroom. At once there was mass armament--pokers, squash racquets, and hammers were grabbed; one roommate, who went by the name of Bruce, rolled his trousers for protection. After a hasty tactical conference they attacked the bedroom, closing the door afterwards so their would be no egress. Three dropped to their kness; the fourth ascended a chair...
...civilized world stands revolted by a bloody pogrom against a defenseless people. Every instinct in us cries out in protest against the outrages which have taken place in Germany during the last five years and which sank to new depths in the organized frenzies of the last few days. . . . If you saw a gang of cowardly ruffians set upon a helpless man in a public street and proceed to beat him, you wouldn't long remain silent. If you saw a fanatical mob pillage and burn a church or a synagogue you wouldn't long remain silent...
...clue to existence to be found in matter? Or in the ceaseless movement to no end, as of living organisms depending on instinct? Or is it rather to be found in personal adherence to an ideal, as expressed in the life of a great and good person--a sage, a pioneer, a saint? It we choose the latter, then we are not like a machine, or a bundle of instincts, but are useful, intelligent, humane individuals...
...hair on her abdomen, they slowly pull themselves by the claws on their forefeet up the incline into the soft, warm, apron-pocket pouch. The mother sits quietly on her haunches, takes no part in the affair. It is likely that many of the young, with little but instinct to guide them, miss the mother's pouch entirely. The number found there is al most always less than the number of embryos in the uterus shortly before birth...
Their services to musicomedy can be exaggerated, but hardly their success. That success rests on a commercial instinct that most of their rivals have apparently ignored. As Rodgers & Hart see it, what was killing musicomedy was its sameness, its tameness, its eternal rhyming of June with moon. They decided it was not enough just to be good at the job; they had to be constantly different also. The one possible formula was: Don't have a formula; the one rule for success: Don't follow it up. Their last five shows explain what they mean. Jumbo was circus...