Word: instinctiveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Maggie, and this justifies all the primping and preening she does. Her Southern accent is not infallible, but she does serve well the lyrical aspects of her speech. She is not at home, however, in the profanity of a phrase like "goddam luck." I think she represses her fighting instinct too much in the first act, and one mutters, "At last!," when she really lets go in the third. I like the idea ok having her aim her archery bow at Mae's back. I did not care at all for Barbara Bel Geddes' Maggie on Broadway; Miss Ashley...
True, most politicians have an instinct for the phony, but the American public need not accept it. Indeed, there are signs that Americans are readier than ever to be dealt with frankly, even if it takes some effort to live with frankness...
...celebrity. It works two ways. According to Andy Warhol's dictum that "in the future, everybody will be famous for at least 15 minutes," overexposure or premature adulation tends to burn up talent too quickly; the public becomes bored. There may also be a deeper 20th century Western instinct that anyone or anything believed in too long may turn the believer into a fanatic. Despite a real desire now for some public inspiration from leaders, there is also a wariness and skepticism about it. Simultaneously, press and television journalists
...book. 'And I am always proud of the part Joe and I played in bringing down McCarthy. We were the first to attack McCarthy all out. And I'm proud that my column writing has been not brilliant but sensible and fair. I have an instinct for the center. I'm not a passionate man.' When we left, Stew climbed out of bed, hitched up his blue pajamas and shook hands. Always the gentleman...
...book is not a biography, Thomas convincingly illustrates the days of McCarthy's life. He settles on the metaphor of the buccaneer, and the book's thesis--if it can be said to have one--is that McCarthy had neither principles nor politics, but only the pirate's instinct to hit and run. One wonders why Thomas insists on so distinguishing this book as a non-biography. To be sure, he has glossed over the Senator's childhood and concentrated on McCarthy's age of glory. But what has he gained? He still views history with the biographer's myopia...