Word: instinct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crane's imaginative compass, which held his story to a psychological true North, was the conflict between his hero's blind instinct for self-preservation and an impersonal war machine. The core of Wright's stories is the conflict between the Negro's instinct for self-preservation and an impersonal, unpredictable lynch machine. The sadistic, melodramatic physical details of his lynchings occur within an almost off-stage irrelevance. Their reality is the "white fog" of lynch terror which hangs over the Negro community, impenetrable to the brightest Southern sunlight. It is this central psychological core...
Dramatic Club authorities, disclaiming responsibility for the Leftist sentiments of "Cannibal Carnival," gave as the reason the play was chosen "the inherent instinct in all of us to revert to the primitive, i.e. cannibalism...
...there breathes an accountant with a soul dead to every healthy human instinct for mischief, he may never have imagined the fun of playing hob with a company's books. Expand an asset here, thumbnose at a liability there, list the right figures in the wrong columns, and a company would soon be unable to tell its assets from its inventory. Last week, the Manhattan Curb Exchange and the Amsterdam Bourse suspended trading in the stock of Interstate Hosiery Mills, Inc. while its officials tried to make sense of its balance sheet. A small, rather bald accountant named Raymond...
...this axis the play, now whimsically, now racily, now sentimentally, keeps turning throughout many scenes. Sound instinct in Playwright Osborn prevents the story from getting mawkish or unwieldy. A lot of salty cussing on the old man's part gives the play feet as well as wings. And an extremely cute seven-year-old (Peter Holden) makes everything seem innocent and wholesome...
...strong instinct of the Dartmouth student body to be cordial and welcome alumni and friends to full participation in Carnival festivities has made it necessary for the College to prevent the overcrowding of fraternity dances and to fix the responsibility for invited guests by requiring that admission be restricted to those extended formal invitation by the fraternity through its officers...