Word: instinctiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Between business deals, often carried out on two telephones at once, Hirshhorn pores over art books, uses every spare minute to dart in and out of galleries. Though his store of knowledge about art is awesome, he seems to operate almost entirely by instinct. "There are," he says, "two types of art-good and bad. If you see a piece that you really like, it hits you in the brain, and in my case, I gotta buy it." Occasionally, Collector Hirshhorn may take a whole day, or even two, to make up his mind about a purchase. More often, "when...
Joined by the Crown, the pound sterling (except for Canada), and the heritage of English as a second or even first language, the Commonwealth's commingling of custom, instinct and self-interest has somehow surmounted fierce disagreements over Suez and South Africa, Kashmir and the Congo, colonial policy and foreign relations, democracy and Communism-and, most significantly of all, Empire itself...
Choice Venom. With a father's sure instinct, Arthur James Pegler. a Hearst reporter himself, forbade his son to go into journalism. But Westbrook heeded his father no more than he did anyone else. He quit high school to take a job with United...
...various times, various souls have tried to make honest men of all barkeepers. It has been the law in Illinois since 1949 that no whisky, gin or rum may be served in less than a one-ounce container. But most drinkers have only their own instinct to provide protection. Says Joseph Amann, a Chicago bar-equipment dealer for the past 38 years: "A man has a built-in measure in his mouth. If a drink doesn't burn as much as it did before, he knows he's getting gypped...
...feuding factions waged a struggle for control. Government was paralyzed and more Europeans were getting out. With industry at a standstill, the U.S., working through church welfare agencies, was feeding one out of five Algerians. What saved Algeria from complete disintegration was a modicum of political maturity and an instinct for survival that made the rival forces at least halfway willing to explore compromises. Emerging from these maneuvers was the near certainty that Ahmed ben Bella, 45, would win his battle "to take over the destiny of Algeria...