Word: instinctiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nationalism is an anachronism-our paramount loyalty is to the human race." But Toynbee overlooks the basic human impulse which, so far at least, seems to find greatest satisfaction in a nation of common instinct and common creed...
...preoccupation with death. He describes his own act of painting as "a kind of fidgeting to make the figure emerge. I put in, I wipe out, I put back in. I change the shape of the shoulders, move the nose up and down." Jones's esthetic instinct is satisfied only after he has achieved the ectopasmic ambiguity that is his hallmark. "The figure is woven into the fabric of the surface," he explains. "The figures are hinged onto this darkness the way people are hinged onto life...
Peanuts & Bawdyhouses. He was, by every instinct, a Beacon Hill Republican. He spent years writing unsolicited letters of advice to U.S. Presidents-no matter who they were. Woodrow Wilson, he said, "could not run a peanut stand." As for F.D.R.-well, friends dared not mention the name in Cabot's presence...
...supersalesman with boundless enthusiasm, "Red" Curtice had an almost unerring instinct for the styling or engineering touch that would inspire the public to want G.M. cars above all others. "New cars must not be too radical or they will not sell," he said. "Automobile owners are among the most conservative people in the world." Curtice himself was not. Reaching into all parts of G.M.'s sprawling operations, he was the prime mover behind the two-tone paint job, the wrap-around windshield, the hardtop convertible. Only rarely, as when he indulged in the chrome-splashing spree that hurt sales...
...Staple Like Salt. She begged what recipes she could from her family and methodically added to that basic list whatever could be garnered from gourmet columns of the day or pried out of restaurant chefs and neighboring hostesses. Aware that she did not possess the gift of cooking by instinct, she took care to note measures and ingredients in explicit detail, never said "some butter" when she meant 4½ tablespoons or "cook until done" when she could define "done" as taking 2¼ hours. In 1931, when her children left home to get married, they took with them...