Word: instinctiveness
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...Group of Seven conference in the French city of Lille. Poised to descend the grand stairway at their hotel, both men suddenly realized they were being watched by a crowd of reporters and photographers below. Brown leaned over to Reich and offered the kind of quip that captured his instinct for politics, his sense of timing and his self-deprecating humor. "The only way people will think we are doing something important," he told Reich, "is if we stand up straight, walk fast and let our arms swing." So they...
DUNBLANE, SCOTLAND, HAS OVERFLOWED with tributes to its 16 murdered children [WORLD, March 25]. But let us also memorialize teacher Gwenne Mayor. In the face of dark and bloody chaos, she reached beyond duty and instinct into the best of her human self and staked her life to try to defend other people's children. That she was slain in this attempt, along with so many of her charges, in no way diminishes the fact that in the long run it is love like hers that will triumph. ANTHONY BUCKLAND North Vancouver, British Columbia...
...that struck me the most, however, is called "Mom Overboard!" and portrays a woman who left the fast track at work to stay home with her kids. Fed up with a child who called the sitter "Mama" and surprised by the "double-edged knife" of the maternal instinct, Sera stayed home with her children--and ended up micromanaging their every waking hour...
...characters haunting the corners of the film frame. From the early days of silent films (when Charlie Chaplin, in a barbershop, gives a cruel hairdo to an effeminate man) to the '90s (when gay or bisexual murderers lend lurid pizazz to The Silence of the Lambs and Basic Instinct), American films--like America itself--have typically treated gays as a joke or a curse...
When I was trying to get into Harvard--when Harvard was still an ideal--it was my instinct to defend the school from these gross generalizations. Harvard couldn't be arrogant. Harvard doesn't have one face. It is a university of all walks of life with energy focused in every direction. Yet in the first few months of my Harvard career, my faith in Harvard's humility has been weakened...