Word: instinctive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Seven Lively Arts is merely one more exhibit in a great glass-enclosed Hall of Showmanship already crowded with displays. Billy today is Broadway's most spectacular if least likely-looking impresario, in whose brashness, love of effect, and shameless pursuit of publicity lie real daring, an instinct for the effective, a canny knowledge of the public...
...ferocious block by Fullback Felix ("Doc") Blanchard* helped Quarterback Doug ("Hard Luck") Kenna sweep right end for the opening touchdown. It was Army's first touchdown against Notre Dame in five years, and it stimulated the killer instinct in the Cadets' cheering section. "Get more ... get more," they chanted, and the West Pointers poured it on. Halfback Glenn Davis, with All-America stamped all over him, carried the ball eight times for 83 yards, scored three touchdowns. As the avalanche rolled on, the Cadet rooters changed their chant to: "Hit 'em again ... hit 'em again...
Magic and Black Art. So irresistible is McCarthy's personality-saucy, lethally precocious and irreverent-that it is all but impossible for listeners to remember that he is a ventriloquist's dummy. The instinct to forget it is natural; no such coldly mechanical term could possibly describe the complex psychological relationship between Charlie McCarthy and Edgar John Bergen...
...long sigh of relief passed through Baker 100 yesterday as visions of mortgages or uniforms, long term (family) debentures vanished from our minds. The allowance had arrived. A little while longer and we'd have lost that instinct for thrift so necessary in a D.O. if his C.D.s aren't O.H. from the G.A.O. But now to hit the beach, as we say, for a long, sweet leave...
Freud, says Dr. Sachs, "saw everywhere around him the struggle of two opposing forces" (life instinct v. death instinct, subconscious drives v. repression). "He was not dazzled by the illusion of progress. . . . For this reason he was skeptical about the promises of communism. When a prominent Bolshevist told him that Lenin, who had been his personal friend, had predicted that Europe would have to go through a period of desolation much worse than that caused by the revolution, the civil war and famine in Russia, but that after that a period of unbroken happiness and stability would follow, Freud answered...