Word: instinctiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...natural habitat on European cliffs, the rock dove (Columba livid), with its grey coat, white rump and iridescent head and neck, is an attractive bird. Bred and trained by man, it has become a valiant message carrier, famed for its speed and homing instinct. It has also become a multicolored pest, appealing mainly to snapshooting tourists and aging lonelyhearts who get solace of a sort from feeding the flocks...
...Light Hand. Like many a success ful publisher, gangling, Dakota-born Phil Graham never covered a news sto ry. A lawyer by training and a wheeler-dealer by instinct, he started at the top of his adopted profession. In 1940 he married Katharine Meyer, 22, news-minded daughter of the liberal Post's multimillionaire publisher. At war's end he joined the paper as associate pub lisher; within six months he took over from Father-in-Law Eugene Meyer...
...Education of the state of Alabama, which announced this week that Bible reading will be compulsory in Alabama schools. The board's resolution denounced the Court for making a "calculated effort to take God out of the affairs of this nation." And Governor Wallace, who seems to have an instinct for the unconstitutional, has pledged that if "the courts rule that we cannot read the Bible in some school, I'm going to that school and read the Bible myself." One Alabama official has gone so far as to say that students whose consciences are offended by Bible reading...
...Bronwyn FitzSimons, 19, looks markedly the way her mother, Maureen O'Hara, did 20 years ago. Bronwyn has five television credits and one film (Spencer's Mountain) behind her, is currently interested in a singing career. She has the sure instinct of the Hollywood child for PR-Man's English: "I sing, I dance, I'm starting a record company. I act, I work in an office, I golf. I'm a refined...
Vicious Creeds. James does not bother to choose among the various creeds he catalogues because he considers them all unprovable. "Instinct leads," he writes. "Intelligence does but follow." The act of conversion is, in fact, a complete surrender of human reason: "The will to assert ourselves and hold our own has been displaced by a willingness to close our mouths and be as nothing in the floods and waterspouts of God. The time for tension in the soul is over, and that of happy relaxation, of calm deep breathing, of an eternal present with no discordant future to be anxious...