Word: instinctiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Home, that the West is fully prepared to fight a nuclear war for the freedom of Berlin. Whether or not the Russians have really only just learned this fact, the U.S. has implicitly accepted it for a long time. For many Americans, this decision may be merely emotional or instinctive. But behind the emotions and the instinct lies a carefully reasoned moral case. That case is set out with great clarity in a symposium of some leading Western intellectuals published by the monthly Commentary. The debaters do not specifically deal with Berlin but with the basic question: Can Western civilization...
...learners, found that their major block was a fear of losing attention if they made any real progress in learning. Bruner got results by ridding them of reliance on external rewards or punishments. Working with normal children, he soon decided that learning is best achieved by freeing the human instinct to synthesize-in sum, by stressing the "act of discovery...
...profession. "I thought to put 'gentleman,' but decided that I did not look the part. 'Bankrupt?' Accurate, but liable to cause prejudice. By what had I kept myself alive for the greater part of my adult life? By faith. Faith and appeal to motherly instinct in the middle-aged . . . Evidently I had no profession...
...accident in 1945, when one of FDP's founders recruited him for party chores. Mende's eloquence and organizational ability propelled him rapidly to the party's top echelons. Though the Free Democrats pose as successors to the old German liberal parties, Erich Mende is by instinct and outlook a conservative who has turned to good advantage his distaste for extremes. By contrast, the party leadership embraces former Nazis, old-school German liberals, and a group with the sinister-sounding name, "technicians of power." In less than two years as its chairman, Mende has not only kept...
...across the dinner table and asked him to explain, as an obviously direct descendant of Adam, how the first man and woman "found out the Art of lying together." Adams did his best "to set a brazen face against a brazen face," explained it was a simple matter of instinct. But later upon reflection he wrote: "If such are the manners of Women of Rank, Fashion and Reputation in France, they can never support a Republican Government. We must therefore take great care not to import them into America...