Word: instinctively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first, an emotional composer, second, an artist of great dramatic power; and third, a man of fascinating humor, whose works have their being to intensify those never changing qualities in man--his basic emotions, love, joy, sorrow, his craving for the dramatic, for something to happen, and his instinct for what is humorous--for the incongruities and variety in the spectacle of life...
Ability to pilot a plane is not due to any "bird instinct," but is achieved by knowledge of a few fundamentals of airplane construction and air behavior, by practice in a dual-controlled ship. Then a pilot develops co-ordinations of his nerve centres which enable him to handle his controls automatically, like a policeman on a motorcycle, a taximan...
Author Hamsun wrote the tale before he had reached the stature that put a Nobel Prize (1920) in his grasp for Growth of the Soil. He had, however, the same instinct for completeness, totality; the same slow scrutiny which, if you wait long enough, turns out to the vast drollery of a cosmic unbeliever...
...colleges, the tutorial system, the division into college units, and freedom from minor restrictions common in early American institutions--are fruits of such contact. Although many of the mental sprigs brought home from abroad would certainly wreak havoc if grafted on the American educational tree, a little instinct for selection can make the foreign contacts all profit and no loss...
...Olson notes, jazz calls for more than a dilatory attention. There is the foundation to be laid--apparently eight long years--and then there is the super-structure which makes the building so attractive. The completed product is the triumph of instinct over intelligence. But a twelve year course, even with a maestra's baton in view, is rather long and arduous. Aborigines accomplished similar ends with much less difficulty...