Word: instinctively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kiddie Lit. Specifically, IRDBNGMD is about 17-year-old Jeremy Wolf's decision to enter antiwar work. Should he break the law by refusing to register for the draft? Lacking the true instinct for martyrdom, he decides to become a draft counselor and turns his house into "an underground station on the freedom road to Canada." His dad-having feared the worst-is much relieved...
...finishes by apologizing for the outburst, explaining, "I've just been itching to get my hands on this microphone for a long time now," as if someone had been preventing him. As it turns out, however, it is only his instinct for the public emotional jugular that has held him back. He spends the rest of the afternoon wandering from caucus to caucus, speaking whenever he wants to at whatever mike is nearest, obviously enjoying his frequent conversations with women in the audience...
...With the increasing intensity of the War in Vietnam," the Times reported in 1967, "Fortas is consulted more and more on foreign policy. As one of Johnson's closest friends, Fortas's instinct for making the wheels turn did not vanish when he donned the robe...
...often been accused of lacking the 'killer instinct,' " says Ashe. "I suppose it used to be true. When things were going bad, I'd say to myself, 'What am I doing here?' " And then he would falter. In 1963, he won the U.S. Men's Hard Court championship, but was beaten in the third round at Wimbledon. In 1965 he led the U.S. Davis Cup team to a 3-2 victory over Mexico, only to be benched during the interzone finals against Spain on the grounds that his play on clay was lackluster...
Armah can barely allow his character the luxury of hope. Out of the once-crushed idealist's instinct for self-protection, he cannot allow himself any hope at all-in the text. But what a tidal wave of yearning surges under that title! For Armah, at heart, is still a dreamer who shakes his defiant fist at the world because he has not yet found it worthy of the dreams he weaves about...