Word: instinctive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...merely, and cannot catch the higher tones of courtesy. If courtesy will not avail with the officials, perhaps expediency would carry a firmer point. For at a time when the alleged necessities of economy are estranging the after dinner element in Widener's clientele, an enterprising bureaucracy with the instinct to survive would do well to make some new, influential, and yet inexpensive friends...
...first difficulty that had to be faced was the repression of an instinct to pick the whole of the West Point team and let it go at that. For it is no mean task to find a team better than that which represented the Army mule, except, of course Notre Dame. It is doubtful whether the Army struck up as fast a pace as it did against Harvard but after all, the judging is done on the basis of games played here and with that in mind it is difficult to imagine a much smoother running machine than the Cadet...
...seem, as a nation, to have lost the capacity to generalize and the instinct to imagine. Our newspapers are not sensations, in that they do not deal in the unexpected. All is anteriorly familiar to the alert for our managing editors never print really important news until someone has shown them that it is important and our minds are already prepared for the impact. The American breed of journalism is the tamest in the world, for it never carries on the exciting warfare of principle, it is never inflamed by the ardor of a great cause. Mr. G. K. Chesterton...
...claustrophobia's existence and begins to look for cause & cure, he finds himself adrift in theory. In a letter to the Times, Dr. Harry Campbell, veteran British neurologist, spoke for the older school when he declared that claustrophobia is simply the morbid expression of a universal animal instinct to avoid capture. Dr. W. Stephenson, University of London psychologist, tartly retorted through the Times that Dr. Campbell's theory was 'very inadequate. . . . Much more satisfactory is ... the current psychoanalytical theory." Psychoanalysis holds, roughly, that morbid fear is the result of a distressing experience in early life, later repressed...
...fellows. Granted the all-pervasive importance of cultivating intellectual refinement and of developing intellectual power, means must be found for making these available primarily to those possessed of potential strength of character, of latent, if not active, attributes which make for personality, and of group consciousness which can dominate instinct for individual acquisitiveness at the expense, of the public weal. Likewise, credentials from our houses of learning ought to be withheld from those without evidence of interest in developing these qualities...