Word: instinctiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...number of wild ideas he's got is enormous," says a student who has worked with Monro at Miles and clearly likes him. Both as Harvard administrator and a part-time Faculty member at Miles, Monro has been the source of many new schemes. Some of these spring from instinct, from a hasty appraisal of the facts of the situation. They seem plausible at first, but on examination appear full of problems. As a result, Monro must retract some and allow others to slide to a slow death. At times, they make him appear foolish. But some of them dowork...
...often infallible instinct--a blend of pragmatic expertise and first-hand information--has made him one of the leading Soviet experts in the State Department. In 1959, he was recalled by Secretary of State Herter to serve in the newly created Bureau of Soviet Affairs. One of his associates has commented, "His special ability is his sense of political interrelationships. He can take an event and immediately see its impact on a whole series of other events in widely separated parts of the world...
...first full-length stage work, Playwright Owens, a 30-year-old Manhattan housewife, seesaws insecurely between the scenic jungle onstage and the psychic jungle in 20th century man. Apparently beginning as a psychological probe of modern woman's instinct for the male jugular, Beclch ends as a form of social parable on black Africa's expulsion of cruel, exploiting whites. Liberally scatological in its language, the play uses four-letter words as fashionable credentials. They seem to show that the author can spit the raw verbal gristle of experience at the audience coolly, and strictly for laughs...
...help Europe revive its money markets. Their present weakness not only helps to raise the cost of borrowing throughout Europe but indirectly contributes to a host of other problems, from industrial inefficiency to the technology gap. In freeing gold and the franc, De Gaulle also undercut the deeply ingrained instinct that has made France a nation of hoarders and smugglers. Restrictions on money leaving the country had sharpened the Gallic impulse to spirit cash into secret Swiss bank accounts or bury gold in gardens and mattresses. Les hirondelles, the friendly black marketeers, could scarcely believe what happened last week...
Women do not enter polities however because "society has taught them attitudes which are just the reverse of the killer instinct one needs to compete in the war of a political campaign," she said...