Word: instinctively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Capitalist Instinct. Eric Gordon, a self-styled "leftist socialist" who went to China in November 1965 to edit and translate revolutionary tracts and literature for Peking's Foreign Language Press, also made one costly error. Preparing to leave China in November 1967, he packed some notebooks in his suitcases. As a result of this "smuggling," he lived with his wife and son for two years like characters in an existential drama, locked in a single hotel room...
Though all of the released Britons had lost weight, it was readily apparent that none had suffered the loss of any capitalistic instinct. After their first quick press conferences, all three clammed up with further details on their experiences, saving them for books and articles they planned to write. Grey kept a diary for just that purpose and is already in print with the first of a three-part series in this week's London Sunday sensation sheet, The People, which is being syndicated in Europe and Australia as well. The price reportedly paid was well over...
...lowan and former Harvard Divinity School student whom he knew from the McCarthy campaign. Brown persuaded Grossman that the businessman's first idea?a general strike on the traditional European model that would seek to stop the wheels of commerce entirely?was probably too audacious to succeed. Brown's instinct was that a quiet day of discussion and debate carried beyond the campus might well catch...
...children, he routed them out of bed at 2 or 3 a.m. and set them to clouting each other till they collapsed. Bred to the tooth and the claw, three of the sons live as pimps, louts and barflies. A fourth son, Michael, flees this world of lacerating animal instinct. He settles in Coventry, marries an English girl and opts for a life of decency, order and reason. But the clan Carney moves in with him like blood-sucking Furies...
...Miss Gates' intensely realistic world, he is a stunted Nietzschean hero, a drifter and petty criminal who lacks the imagination to refine love out of his shapeless longings. Yet he is not without hope. Caught up in Detroit's summer riot, Jules discovers that his best instinct is for "senseless dreamy violence." "Violence can't be singled out from an ordinary day," he tells a TV interviewer after the riot. "Everyone must live through it again and again; there's no end to it, no land to get to, no clearing in the midst...