Word: instinctiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such comedy may be amusing, but it is also serious commentary on human life. "Gleason has gorgeous creative juices," says Requiem's Producer David Susskind with purple accuracy. "He is a thundering talent-the kind of raw, brilliant talent that has gone out of style, with as much instinct in drama as in comedy...
...four paintings at a time to save paint ("I do the blue for one sky and then the three other skies"), and following her own rules, she always worked from the top down, filling in the fields and farmhouses, the toylike trees and stubby little figures simply by instinct. Before long, she was big business, with her affairs being handled in Manhattan by Otto Kallir. director of the St. Etienne Gallery. Her canvases fetched as much as $10,000 and wherever she went, people asked her for her "monogram...
Feathered Lizards. Just as shallow is Ardrey's use of bird territoriality to justify violent human greed. Birds are feathered lizards whose instinct-dominated brains do not resemble the brain of man; consequently, their customs have little bearing on human affairs. When Ardrey tries to draw human lessons from the property instincts and sex relationships of lions, antelopes, baboons, seals, monkeys and many other animals, he gets hopelessly mixed up. No wonder; he should not have tried. Each species has its special and widely differing customs, and seldom do they resemble the ways of social man. Perhaps the most...
...remains the most naturally gifted-and potentially the greatest-soprano now singing. Her voice, which has been compared to a Stradivarius because of its violinlike legato line, is as warm and as opulent as any in opera; her handling of it is a wonder of intelligence sharpened by instinct. No singer, not even Callas, has a more acute dramatic sense, as Soprano Price has demonstrated in her definitive portrayals of Aïda, Butterfly, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Minnie in this season's Met opener, The Girl of the Golden West. ("You can get into this part," said...
...snowball like a humorous, extravagant folktale. He hires out for a wife, works seven years only to get the wrong girl, and has to start all over again. And with each new wife he receives, there is a slave girl who also becomes involved in Jacob's rather generous instinct for fatherhood. You see what I mean...