Word: instinctiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bandidos justice, meted out bullet by bullet beside the tracks to a whole trainload ol captured Federales. Keeping the good guys and bad guys sharply in his sight at all times, Director Richard Brooks (Elmer Gantry) sets up a neat surprise or two and shows a marksman's instinct for knowing what to do with all that awesome western scenery-he pumps i full of high-gauge performances, guts ingenuity, flaming arrows, dynamite anc hot lead...
...merchant banker's prime asset is his experience in sizing up situations, measuring men and calculating risks down to one sixty-fourth of 1 %. But very often, as Wechsberg notes, he relies on instinct. One day in 1932, Swedish Match King Ivar Kreuger tried to interest the Lehman Brothers in a complicated financial deal. Kreuger talked and talked about his grandiose schemes, while Philip Lehman made a few notes. Then Lehman turned him down: "I have a rule, Mr. Kreuger. If I cannot understand something by reading my notes on the subject...
HITCHCOCK: No. I think that's the kind of thing one reverts to by instinct. The very first time I used that shot -- shooting down a stairwall -- was in a film I made, The Lodger, in 1926. And of course you didn't have sound in those days...
...probed incessantly and mechanically. Eugene O'Neill stopped his characters in mid-dialogue for asides to the audience about what they were really thinking, and every up-to-date fiction writer streamed with stream of consciousness. Dreams were busily explored for sex, and the denial of the sex instinct was blamed for nearly everything. Seducers in novels (as well as in real life) were forever telling girls: "The trouble is you're repressed...
Cultural Crisis. Novak believes that the church today faces "a cultural crisis of the first order of magnitude." Understandably, Catholicism's hierarchical leaders are uncertain as to how to deal with this new, nothing-sacred, questioning attitude. While the instinct of many bishops is to return to the traditional methods of control, suppression, denunciation and excommunication, Thorman points out that such a tactic cannot be applied to Catholic intellectuals who no longer fear authority. Yet church leaders fear that total freedom to question and doubt is to open Catholicism's doors to a plague of heresy and half...