Word: instinctiveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wrote an intimate report of the intricate discussions that led Kennedy to the Cuban missile crisis, including the first use of "hawks and doves" and the unforgettable quote from Dean Rusk: "We are eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other guy just blinked." Stewart always had an instinct for the memorable or revealing quote...
...does Magruder offer a sustained, considered judgment: "Without question, Nixon had the potential to be the greatest conservative political leader of his time; he knew his goals and he had the skills required to achieve them. Yet he had a fatal flaw too, an inability to tolerate criticism, an instinct to overreact in political combat. I don't know which came first, the liberals' loathing of Nixon or Nixon's loathing of the liberals, but the passions fed on one another, grew more and more bitter, until once he achieved the presidency, Nixon could not resist...
...every part of the design - is formidable. Indeed, the goldworking cultures that flourished in the isolated river valleys of western Colombia from the end of the 1st millennium B.C. - Quimbaya and Tairona, Tolima and Muisca, Narino and Calima - shared, whatever their differences of society and religion, a superb instinct for the vital shape. Whether the object is a heart-shaped Calima pectoral with a fierce mask glaring from the center of its luxuriant curves, or a Muisca votive figure whose torso is compressed and flattened into a long triangular wedge of gold, or the magnificent Tairona pectoral with its three...
...Wagner, Stott & Co., specialists in the stock, bought 35,000 shares for its own account, the price of the stock continued to drift down to a Wednesday close of 46½. By week's end it had recovered only to 50⅞. Veteran Wall Streeters blamed a herd instinct among institutional money managers to unload immediately a stock that had been publicly labeled risky-or, in other words, panic...
...quit school to sign on as a cub reporter with a Bristol paper. Starting on the police beat, he was eventually reviewing films and plays. In retrospect, he says, "I didn't really enjoy it. I felt I was a critic by instinct, not by credentials. I kept thinking I only put into print what other people were saying in the bar during intermission." Nonetheless, he made amusing use of the experience later when he wrote The Real Inspector Hound (TIME, May 8, 1972), a caustic spoof of two rather addlepated drama critics flexing their cliches on an Agatha...