Word: instinctive
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Irving is passing his knowledge and enthusiasm for the sport on to his sons. Brendan, built like his father, is just beginning. Colin is already a promising prospect. He is 5 ft. 10 in. with big hands and an uncanny instinct for his opponent's next move. Says Irving: "I have a $100 bet with Colin that I'll beat him on my 40th birthday, which is only 20 days away from his 17th. But he is already beating me. He's got the money in his pocket unless I catch...
Catlin's Indians were men of dignity, and Catlin met them and painted them with honesty. He neither flinched from it nor fudged it. And by the mere fact of painting only the essential-either because of an absence of "taste' or through an innate instinct for the essential-he achieved a kind of authenticity that in retrospect none of his more celebrated colleagues could rival...
...takes tough analysis, savvy business sense and the daring of a high-wire walker to sort out the possible winners from the almost certain losers. Says George Rooks, 45, president of First Capital Corp. of Boston: "In the final analysis, it boils down to educated instinct-call it judgment. What we make is a judgment on the people and the product." For instance, Boston's TA Associates and New York's Inco Securities have raised $3.5 million to start a new company called Immunogen Inc. The firm plans to develop the use of monoclonal antibodies, which are invisible...
...feel that a householder who must budget his sanity-so much for taxes, so much for education, etc.-should not fritter it away by brooding about a children's dessert. They are wrong. What is clear is that at this stage in the decline of the West, instinct tells us that we have a right to live in the golden age of something. Why should that something be acid rain or rocket launchers? Why not-an Oreo-mint cone, please, with a scoop of cantaloupe, and jimmies-do our wistful dreaming about one of civilization's benign marvels...
...false allegations-that I am for sale, or for rent, that I lacked compassion, that I did not care about the torture of human beings in certain countries friendly to the U.S. My position has been clear on all of this. A label, once applied, because of the herd instinct in Washington, sticks. The record never caught up. I was done in by my two chief virtues-candor and courage." He denied that either the White House or the State Department nudged him out, and said that both Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander Haig telephoned to suggest other Government...