Word: instinctiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Parliament, Pearson became the bruised leader of a lonely little group. To the Liberal old guard, he was an apolitical do-gooder, with no instinct for the jugular. Pearson himself has described Opposition politicians as "the detergents of democracy," whose job it is to "cleanse and purify those in office. The good Opposition leader doesn't go around looking for belts so he may hit below them, or, on the other hand, looking for a parade merely so he may lead...
...this analysis, has one grasped the experience of the composer? Poets cannot go to the heart of the mystery, but can only capture its radiations. "But if the composer could express the obscure instinct of composing with words alone, he would no longer be a composer, but a writer," Boules added. "I can go to the essential idea of music only through my own music. Music is a kind of sonorous order, and to live in this order is the only solution...
There are, of course, many honest, straightforward ways to compete with the Calendar, but the CRIMSON turns, as by instinct, to character assassination...
...instinct of the President and his advisers is correct to the extent that investment must be encouraged if the economy is to regain its vigor. The problem here is how to place capital in the hands of new entrepreneurs, much of whose investment will be in plant and whose dollars therefore will have the "multiplier" effect described by Keynes. (It is assumed--necessarily, through perhaps inaccurately--that such men exist, either independent of the large corporations, or within them, but anxious to be free of them...
...covering, or even the sense of precision imposed by modern machinery, has been allowed to hide the fact that architecture through the ages is as much the work of the hand as of the head. As Le Corbusier said in his own royal way: "Le Corbusier has kept the instinct of the prophetic, indispensable, practical and beneficent relations between the hand and the head...