Word: instinctiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whistles & Boos. With true Gallic instinct for the wrong moment, the National Assembly last week thrust its own challenge at De Gaulle-almost as if to show that it was not moved by the assassination attempt. Since last April, the Assembly had chafed under the constitution's Article 16, which gave De Gaulle power to brush aside the debates of the Deputies as "Fourth Republic games" and run France as he pleased. To protest against De Gaulle's emergency powers, the Assembly chose a purely technical issue. De Gaulle's Premier Michel Debre bluntly refused a special...
Hearst's "sure instinct for vulgarity" found first expression on the San Francisco Examiner, a limp rag that his father, George, who had made millions in mining, had taken over on a bad debt. In 1887, at 23, ambitious Willie wheedled the Examiner from his parent. In his very first issue, he ran a tearjerker on Page One about foundlings in a lying-in hospital, together with a juicy story about the trials of one Job Cram-whose affliction was a heavy-drinking wife. Hearst also wooed his readers with sure-fire crusades, among them a protracted campaign against...
...Communism was a curious point to raise. For it is the Russians who talk about inevitability, and sound convinced about their ability to win the world to their view. The grandeur of Communism was best measured last week not in the decibels of rocket rhetoric, but by the instinct for choice made by thousands of men, women and children...
...proving that three years after his Moscow triumph he still commands a movie-fan idolatry rare among longhairs. His ardently romantic manner of playing the piano is only part of the appeal; Cliburn also obviously enjoys crowds and loves applause and has a showman's sure instinct for using his gifts. At Lewisohn, Showman Cliburn was in peak form...
...Dinh Diem is no democrat by instinct; he remains aloof from the masses in the tradition of a mandarin who follows the ancient Confucian code of a divinely guided prince. "A sacred respect is due the person of the sovereign. He is the mediator between the people and heaven as he celebrates the national cult," he once wrote. A chain-smoking bachelor, he runs things his way, taking advice only from a few aides and his tight-knit family; his closest adviser is a brother who has an office in the palace. All departmental reports go to Diem's office...