Word: instinctiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...laden organization that so many younger ministers complain about. To Kennedy, the right use of organization can foster successful evolution instead of schism-creating revolution. Methodism, he says, is a "strange combination of discipline and freedom-and it is the discipline that makes the freedom possible." Wesley's instinct for order was wise, he argues, "because nobody stands alone. We're a connectional church-and you just can't be a Christian standing alone...
...however, simply a difficult one. His remarkable announcement that all of Jonathan Edwards must be read as a "cipher" demonstrates exactly how Miller postulated complexity in human affairs and then penetrated the public mind of a time to find it. As Fleming says, the Christian system of typology--the instinct to discover the truth at work in symbols and words--parallels Miller's own approach...
...mistake in an article on electronics [March 27] to refer to an electronic device as being mechanical. Much worse is your calling a computer a brain. A brain has approximately 10 billion neurons, logic and memory units, and possesses the capabilities of instinct, intuition and imagination. A computer can have the equivalent of about 100,000 neurons and is a complex tool to magnify man's intellect. It is very important that the public understand what computers are and what they are not because of the increasing impact of computers on our society. DONN B. PARKER...
...still has the haggling instinct of her Brooklyn childhood and sometimes puts the weight of her new fame behind it, often insisting on discounts at local stores ("Listen, don't I deserve a discount or something? I mean, after all"), or ordering a secretary to "tell them that if they want my business, they'd better knock $2 off that bill...
What about the dowdies? Those senseless frumps who haven't the instinct, or cash, to wear the right clothes? Mrs. Guinness advises a career for which a uniform is required. "A religious order would be infinitely the best choice." The woman who is not wild about convents can always settle down and start breeding. No one cares what she's wearing then. Even Mrs. Guinness admits that: "Fortunately, we do not have to have our clothes on when busy multiplying ourselves...