Word: instinctive
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...School swept through the campus occupying buildings to protest a proposal for counting class participation towards grades--essentially an anti-cramming nor does it mean that tentative, revolutionary have outlived their usefulness. Rather, students' willingness to try such tactics even on apparently incongruous issues reflects their strong--and perceptive--instinct that they and the University can rarely negotiate in the same terms or even speak the same language...
...race relations. "In some ways I also came here a lot less exist than many people," he adds, explaining that in Bremen, women such as his own mother work full-time "out of necessity, and there's no great cause attached to it." In general he lauds the instinct to "take care of problems back home, rather than looking for handouts." His albatross upon arrival here, he says, was not overt intolerance, but "ignorance, just lack of learning...I hadn't recognized the extent of certain problems...
...constant in Hope's day is his nightly walk. He heads for Palm Springs' main drag, which is teeming with teen-agers at 1 in the morning. It is the vaudevillian's instinct that the moment you are off the stage the audience begins to forget you, and so Hope works even here; he window-shops and scratches autographs on cocktail napkins, all without breaking his stride. Hope confesses that he's "slowing down a bit. I still need the laughs and the adulation, but I guess I can get those from my specials...
...Kleist's death was his first striking success. The echo of the two shots fired beside the Wannsee shook people out of their lethargy; some obscure instinct told them that this death had meaning, even at a time when human life counted for so little. Today, more than a century and a half later, we have well-nigh forgotten the untold thousands slaughtered in the course of Napoleon's mad struggle for power, while the echo of the shots fired beside the Wannsee still rings in our ears ... But it was not until the hundredth anniversary of Kleist...
...students on any of these subjects. Why are some Blacks so quickly inclined to raise their pens against other Blacks or Black efforts when they have a record of silence on issues of racism' Criticism is fine but it must be bucked by substance and not simply based on instinct and ignorance...