Word: instinctive
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...Some coxes work under negative influence and their crew hates them," says Mahony. "Most of the people who do crew are incredibly competitive, but everyone has a heart as well as a killer instinct. That's the element of positive influence in coxing--tapping both the heart and the emotion...
Mondale lacked a true jugular instinct, missing several openings to bore in. The debate clearly served to air issues that have been somewhat submerged in the campaign thus far. For viewers, the debate was a reassuring reminder of the fundamental strengths of America's democratic process. If it did not produce a closer race, it produced a far more interesting...
...then, the belief that the worst is over? "Mostly instinct," said Mondale in a campaign-plane interview with TIME. "I think the crowds are more excited. I think I'm getting my arguments across." He referred to an endorsement by the Sierra Club, the first in that environmentalist organization's 92-year history. He also pointed to the success of his running mate, Geraldine Ferraro, in getting Chicago's feuding Democrats, Mayor Harold Washington and Councilman Edward Vrdolyak, to share a platform with her in a display of party unity. Said Mondale: "I think that means something...
...Texas widow attempting to save her farm from foreclosure and her family from being broken up should the old homestead go. Indeed, Edna Spalding, as luminously portrayed by Sally Field, is as good as she is brave: churchly, compassionate, guileless. Her sense of social responsibility is informed by unimpeachable instinct, not by suspect ideology...
...more Woodward clings to the fringes of his departing glory as Nixon's nemesis, the further he travels from any commendable conception of his role of a reporter and the more he dangerously confuses the public's right to participate in national governance with an animal instinct for voyeurism and gossip of every sort. "When a man accepts the public trust." Jefferson said, "he becomes like a public property." Yet however much Nixon and Belushi may be "public figures" in the eyes of the court, the moral quality of the grouping is disingenuous. As an elected official possessing the actual...