Word: instinctiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since it is a considerably more natural instinct, at least for politicians in an election year, to resist cuts in domestic spending, Shriver will doubtless get his $1.75 billion. As Democratic Representative Sam Gibbons of Florida observed, "We used to say we don't want any of that tainted federal money. Now we say 'tain't enough...
...under her nose, and "a child is clutched by primeval rapture to which she knows but one answer: turning to a shaggy tree trunk she embraces it passionately. She presses her slight person against its bulk and kisses it with ardor until, flung so carelessly on the storm of instinct, she swings into fantastic dancing, calling to the others, 'The marriage ceremonial, the marriage ceremonial. See me dance at my marriage ceremonial.' Never up, down or across creation could there be a lovelier sight." An unobtrusive miracle is accomplished; the ceremony of innocence is not drowned...
...drug-taking was a password with the group, but it is interesting to note that they all recognized their fears and called it by its name. Some felt that paranoia was the worst part of taking drugs while others explained that it was a safety device, or an animal instinct of survival which the drug had not been able to eradicate. All of those I talked to had their doubts about talking to me at first, and many later pleaded that no article be printed for fear that it would turn the heat on them. But most of them were...
...Schwartz, who both wrote and directed it. But the acting is not only equal to the play itself, it often surpasses it. With the exception of Mark Liberman as Charles, the pedagogue, the cast plays its multiple parts (the lovers are the same royal family) with balance and professional instinct. I don't know whether Charles was intended to be played as he was but the effect was nevertheless unfortunate. Bro Uttal was thoroughly convincing in a demanding role and it would be impossible to say which of the girls was best. Not only did they make the fantasy...
...live to see direction become destination. Worn out by half a century of continual concertizing, he died in 1924 at the age of 58. He was, in his own words, "a weak man, yet a stout wrestler, whom doubts drive hither and thither; master of thought, slave of instinct, exhausting all things, finding no answer." A Faustian figure...