Word: instinctiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Accent on Optimism. That depends, to a considerable extent, on the prime movers of private business, whose massive corporations have been called "the dominant nongovernmental institutions of American life." The men at the top judge the state of the economy with a mixture of facts and instinct. Whenever they meet -whether over candlelit dining tables in the White House or in clubs from San Francisco's Pacific Union to Manhattan's Links-they are constantly poking and prodding the U.S. body economic and creating the delicate consensus known as business mood. What is their mood...
From this first experience Le Corbusier has kept the instinct of the fatidical, indispensible, practical, and beneficient relations between the hand and the head. The rupture of this collaboration of the hand and the head brought by the mechanism and the bureacracy has fomented little by little the monstrous society which would be on the decline if no reaction interfered...
...wonder the existentialist suffers from irremediable anguish, James might say. He exalts the self and existence at the expense of instinct, sensation, and being. Life is absurd for the existentialist; it is not for the female fly on the bit of dung. The existentialist moans, "I am." The fly simply shakes with a "voluptuous thrill," as her ovipositor discharges...
...being existence essence tough-minded pragmatic mediator tender-minded once-born seeker of a universal religion twice-born healthy-minded seeker of emotional maturity sick-souled mother child father Holy Ghost Son (as historical figure) Father affection cognition conation (will, material artist form aesthetics metaphysics ethics spirit reason law Instinct organism habit
...Palm Springs? Spiegel, too, has got what he was after. He describes his esthetic attempts with a certain convolution more fitting to script-writing than speech: "I want to explore the variations on the theme of a man being basically in conflict with his own destiny, asserting his instinct for constructiveness, conflicting with the destructive forces around him." But his search for motion-picture reality is earnest: he built miles of roads in Ceylon while making River Kwai, hired 16 elephants to haul the 30,000 cu. ft. of timber used to build the bridge. "One Hollywood joker," says Spiegel...