Word: instinctiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some large questions raised by his book. Why have bonds between females, a sociological fact that he acknowledges, been so weak and so much less of a cultural force than male affinity? And in a war-torn world where nonaggressive, peace-loving women outnumber men, why has the female instinct for serenity not determined the political climate? Tiger, who holds that the male instinct for dominance is today as much a menace as a blessing, suggests that it may be time for the hunter to disarm himself by throwing his weight around in places where no one gets hurt...
...Love Machine. A preposterously engaging sex-and-power fantasy targeted mainly at middle-aged females, The Love Machine is already nudging Portnoy's Complaint off the top of the bestseller lists, and should gross at least $2,000,000. In it, Miss Susann once again demonstrates her remarkable instinct for the varicose vein...
...responsibilities toward the Harvard and non-Harvard community, but these responsibilities are not best met by drawing up a list of "community problems" and then urging the President and Fellows to "do something." From time to time--as when a great civil rights leader is senselessly murdered--the instinct to act in this manner becomes almost irresistible. But it would be a mistake. Harvard cannot solve most of the problems that face us, nor can it always act collectively to make a contribution toward their solution. It is too easy to arouse false hopes and to stimulate unrealizable expectations. There...
...husbanded by generations of farmers to support plump cattle and rich green wheat. It is the Stour River Valley, a place of running streams and slow canals northeast of London, and almost from the moment he was born in 1776 John Constable cherished it with an early and sure instinct. "The sound of water escaping from milldams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts and brickwork-I love such things," he wrote. "I had often thought of pictures of them before I ever touched a pencil...
...members of The Bead Game all have a highly developed instinct for this sort of rock-kineticism. The drummer, Jimmy Hodder, always maintains a sharp edge to his drumming, which is in part a function of the extreme, pungent clarity of every one of his beats, the bassists (Lassie Sachs) consistently keeps up a furious fluttering, Bobby Gass, on organ, punctuates the music with gigantic, sudden, marching chords, constantly accenting with his left hand the lyrical melodies that he plays with his right. The lead-guitarist, John Sheldon, has the kind of rhythmic chording sense that is so conspicuously absent...