Word: instinctive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...movement continues sterile . . . from a variety of causes. One ... is the want of really compelling leaders, of men of genius having the warrant of creative artists. The other causes embrace an only fitful instinct for truth, an almost fantastical indifference to beauty, and a deplorable neglect of the fundamentals of workmanship. . . . There have been arid epochs before this, such as the Victorian and its equivalent across the Channel in the Paris of Napoleon III. . . . Mediocrity in those days had a stupendous vogue. Modernism is but repeating history. It will someday prove a kind of Victorian 'dud,' with...
...referring to the Clement Wood biography you quote me as saying that I replied to Mr. Yood in answer to a query of his "that you should let your 'instinct' be your guide.'' I never made any such statement nor did Mr. Wood quote any such statement coming from...
...Clement Wood, TIME erred: it was another Macfadden biographer, one Fulton Oursler who was once a Macfadden employe, As to the "instinct" quotation. Publisher Macfadden errs. "Let nature be the guide." is what TIME said Mr. Wood said Mr. Macfadden said which is exactly what Mr. Wood...
...Bulgaria or Kentucky?are two sturdy planes of the German Lufthansa. Two summers ago a German tourist brought several bags of vegetable seed, with the result that many nourishing plants, hitherto unknown in Iceland, sprouted and flourished last summer. But the Icelanders were not particularly pleased. They obey by instinct Explorer Stefansson's rule: A people react with pleasure to a new food in proportion as they have been accustomed to a varied diet. Accustomed to an unvarying fish, smoked mutton, cheese and potato diet the Icelanders view green vegetables with alarm. They delight, however, in repeating that "Proportional...
Should news of the passing of the Prom still the revival instinct in members of the Junior Class one can yet conceive of its re-birth. But unless there is a sudden hue and cry calling the Promback to life, time probably would be better spent speculating as to the future of college dances under the House Plan social scheme, than in pondering the fate of an occasion that has had its day of glory...