Word: instinctively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effect of this casual meeting is powerful. The Freshman receives, in his first personal contact with the Administration, the sharp impression that his life in Cambridge will be planned and executed entirely on his own initiative, guided by nothing but his instinct. That vague thing he knows only as "Harvard", he realizes, does not much care what courses he takes, what field he concentrates in, or what he does in his spare time, so long as he fulfills the provisions of the Rules and Regulations. He understands, furthermore, that his adviser is nothing more than a personification of those rules...
...churches and sects." He came of a long line of British squires who, from the time of Willmus Cripps in the 12th Century, had been known as champions of the underdog. Stafford's aunt, Beatrice Webb (a sister of Cripps's mother), helped turn the youthful instinct for social justice toward formal socialism. Cripps was born in 1889, the year Uncle Sidney and Aunt Beatrice published the famous Fabian Essays in Socialism...
...increasing national austerity. Said the Economist: "However right Sir Stafford is at present, it is difficult to suppress the suspicion that he is right because he is in his element, because he positively prefers an austere, restricted, controlled economy, because, like the tympanist in an orchestra, his instinct, when he has nothing else to do, is to go around tightening up all the screws...
...without Casey trudging unhurriedly in from the bull pen. Big Hugh Casey, who weighs 219 lbs. and runs the Dodgers' favorite beer parlor in Brooklyn, is a man of immense calm. There were often men on bases when he came in; but Casey had a tavernkeeper's instinct for quelling disturbances. He pitched in six of the seven games (another record), won two of them, saved another...
Crisis of the Mind. His failure to do so highlighted the greatest crisis of all-the crisis of the imagination. Civilizations do not fall primarily by a failure of force. They fall because of a failure of the mind and the instinct to survive. It was this failure that a Frenchwoman had in mind when she said to an American, in a sweltering Paris restaurant last week: "The fate of Western civilization is being settled now-this week. And there seems to be nobody, in your country or mine, or in any country, with enough imagination to save...