Word: instinctiveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would have preferred to carry through to the finish, whatever the personal agony it would have involved, and my family unanimously urged me to do so . . . I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as President I must put the interests of America first. America needs a full-time President and a full-time Congress, particularly at this time with problems we face at home and abroad. To continue to fight through the months ahead for my personal vindication would almost totally absorb the time...
Until Watergate, on the other hand, liberals half believed that Nixon's new incarnations meant a pattern of growth. They disliked him, but they also tried to perceive over the years a man successively shucking off his earlier gut-fighting instinct, his narrow antiCommunism, becoming more
...instinct, Ford would like to continue speaking out in defense of Nixon. Indeed Ford discussed impeachment strategy with Chief of Staff Alexander M. Haig Jr. last week. The Vice President has declared that he will not lobby for Nixon in Congress. He explained: "I am not going out, as I used to when I was minority leader, and affirmatively and aggressively try to convince them they ought to vote this way or that." But in a gesture of sorts to his own conscience, he has insisted on reserving the right to give his opinion when asked...
...maximum effectiveness, the psych requires a jugular instinct for a rival's weakness-his most intimate ambition, an insubstantial boast or a small, fresh scar-and a sure knowledge that except on certain social or sporting occasions, the only boy on the home team is yourself. Jack Nicholson has been rattling and roughing up the competition since he started acting out in Hollywood in the late '50s-at first with very little luck. Then came a gradual success that right now is soaring...
With most prophets who deal in unrelieved raillery, the tedium is the message. But Muggeridge is too canny an entertainer for that. In The Infernal Grove, the second volume of his autobiography, he writes with enough verve and instinct for artful exaggeration to keep a good novel spinning along. His pages are enlivened with provocations to conventional wisdom ("Innocence is often a quality of worldly success, as sophistication is of worldly failure" ... "News like sensuality is a passing excitement; perhaps the ultimate fantasy of all"). His characters-including a Who's Who of English politics, journalism and literature...