Word: instinctive
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With unerring instinct they led their men to a beerhouse, called the Bürgerbrau Keller, famed Bavarian cellar. Within was Bavarian Dictator von Kahr and some others. Dr. von Kahr was in the middle of outlining his state policy in which he denounced Marxism, when the door opened and in walked Herr Hitler and General von Ludendorff with some of their followers, who fired a few shots into the ceiling by way of effect...
Picasso never painted an abstract picture in his life. His instinct for the real world was so strong that he probably would have produced something woman-shaped every time he took brush in hand. Nevertheless, some of his cubist still lifes of 1911 run close to total abstraction. Objects were sunk in a twinkling field of vectors and shadows, solid lapping into transparency, things penetrating and turning away, leaving behind the merest signs for themselves-a letter or two, the bowl of a pipe, the sound hole of a guitar. This sense of multiple relationships was the core of cubism...
...cites study after study showing that various ex-offenders receiving federal aid often return to crime anyway. "The real relationship between crime and unemployment (or poverty) is probably complex, not simple...we might discover that as unemployment rates go up, crime rates go up," Wilson concludes. "One's natural instinct would be to interpret this as meaning that rising unemployment causes rising crime. But rising crime might as easily cause rising unemployment...
...year, I hope to have tapes of "That Delicate Balance" in over 1000 colleges--it'll be a theater of learning." Through that show and the special seminars. Friendly says, "Miller and Nesson have become great journalists in the best sense of the word--they have great instinct...
Where Friendly perceives Miller's "great instinct." Pollack recognizes his great "TV savvy." Don Hewitt, the Executive Producer of "60 Minutes," participated in a Miller moderated seminar. "He's a great performer," Hewitt says...