Word: instinctive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patron except pay for his ticket, was opened at Long Beach, Calif, last week. Built by National Theatres Corp.'s president Charles Skouras, it is constructed of steel, gypsum and Fiberglas sections and seats 1,164 people. Said a brochure handed out to first-nighters: "The instinct of self-preservation is one of the strongest in mankind. No audience can fully relax unless it is assured nothing in the way of accident, fire or earthquake can mar its entertainment." To give this assurance the theater featured "303 wonders," including a 38-ft., air-conditiofred davenport in the lounge, germicidal...
...With these measures-certain to be hotly debated and as certain to be passed-owners and users of Britain's land and everything "in, on, under or over the land" knew what they were up against, and it was plenty. Hereafter, a great saying fraught with the British instinct for freedom would read: "An Englishman's home is his Government's." Planners had captured the Englishman's castle...
...probable that if I had been an American 15 or 20 years ago I would have been an isolationist, by instinct if not by conviction. Naturally, I would have been wrong. But I would have been one just the same. It would not have seemed normal to me to have to cross an ocean and leave an invulnerable country in order to save from disaster my defaulting debtors. Little by little I would doubtless have understood that if Europe and Africa were handed over to German militarism, Asia to Japanese militarism, America would inevitably become a battlefield and that, consequently...
...weapon and no qualms about using it. He had the means of freezing up U.S. industry, the means of hurting the U.S. abroad. He had allies as well as power. Many a businessman, desperate for coal, was for peace at almost any price. Labor backed him, from the simple instinct of self-preservation...
...types it at 3 a.m. (he sleeps till noon), edits it at the nearest coffee shop ("the restaurants of the country are my workshops"), sells it, mimeographs and distributes it to his newspaper clients. He goes where he pleases, mostly in his own car, writes whatever his common-denominator instinct directs about each day's wanderings. Last week he was hunting near St. Petersburg...