Word: instinctiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...excellence of this production lies not alone in its modesty. Ross at once exercises audacity and restraint. With a sure instinct for what will work--and for what he need not bother with--he has used the ample talents of his cast to their fullest...
...Donleavy in 1958 created one of the most outrageous scoundrels in contemporary fiction, a whoring, boozing young wastrel who sponges off his friends and beats his wife and girl friends. Author Donleavy then turns the moral universe on its head by making the reader love Dangerfield for his killer instinct, flamboyant charm, wit, flashing generosity-and above all for his wild, fierce, two-handed grab for every precious second of life. "More," "Now" and "Eeeeee!" are Dangerfield's key words...
...born, men and women marry or do not marry, father fights with son and son with father, the old die. Peace is love, war is evil. In war, the young die, husband is torn from wife, the round of daily life is violated and reversed; yet Tolstoy's instinct for portraying the tenacious domesticity of existence makes war seem the great interrupter rather than the great destroyer...
...Navy announced that it is adding to its arsenal the Mark-46 torpedo, a solid-fuel missile with an underwater speed faster than the newest nuclear subs. Thanks to the wonders of computerdom, the Mark-46 also has a built-in, all-but-infallible killer's instinct...
...adventuresome minds in science and the arts: Physicist James Van Allen, Psychologist Wendell Johnson, Printmaker Mauricio Lasansky, Paul Engle's famed Writers' Workshop. The library, medical and law schools are among the best in the U.S. But Hancher is a corporation lawyer by training and cautious by instinct. "He tended to protect what we already had," says one dean, "but I am more concerned about the future than today's needs." With Hancher approaching mandatory retirement at 68, the regents last year also began to think about the future. Screening more than 130 candidates, they finally chose...