Word: instinctiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Merely by being herself, Jacqueline Kennedy had sailed across thresholds that would have tripped most women. But, armed with her femininity and bold fashion instinct, she did not miss a step. Paris and Vienna had a new goddess. The U.S. had a queen, and not from Hollywood. And Jackie proved once more that, in any language, there is nothing like a dame?especially Jackie...
Increasingly, his raw nerves lay close to the surface. In fits of blind rage, he slapped his puppet President Joaquin Balaguer, kicked palace functionaries in the groin, spat on his assistants. But he still had an instinct for survival. Aware that the main threat of internal revolution lay within the literate middle class, he kept up the pressure of arrest and harassment to prevent organized opposition. He even took on the Roman Catholic Church, which at last went into open opposition...
...woman (Shelley Winters) whom Lancaster once loved. Then Lancaster tries to kill one of the punks who pummels him in the I.R.T., and begins to doubt his own motives. "The natural reaction of man is to get revenge, retribution - an eye for an eye." he observes. "That's instinct, but is it right?" Much-touted TV Director John Frankenheimer too often insists on the audience's knowing that he is around; the stabbing, for example, is seen entirely in the reflection of the victim's "shades" (dark glasses). He persistently uses his camera to comment...
...Intuition, divination, instinct, were as good for them as 'proofs' today," according to Courant. Only after the revolution did mathematicians inject rigor into their textbooks to guide the large numbers of people suddenly confronted with the chance to educate themselves...
...watched as Castro turned Cuba left. He served briefly as Ambassador to Spain, accepted a second appointment (never fulfilled) as Ambassador to the U.S. Like Ray, he stayed on at the university until the Communists took over. Then he returned to exile in Miami-where, almost by instinct, he began to try to conciliate between Ray's M.R.P. and Varona's Frente...