Word: instinctiveness
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...after being wrongly convicted of murder) looks hopelessly unfashionable today, with its melodramatic narration, simplistic characters and stubborn avoidance of social relevance (no date rapists to be found). It does offer, however, something rarely seen in current TV drama: dark, intense morality tales, pitting one man's instinct for survival against his instinct for doing good...
...have no regard for the family." (He didn't say how he knew.) c. The family is "the basic building block ... of legitimate government." (He didn't mention which part of Locke's First Treatise on Government was therefore incorrect.) d. Copulation is the "most base of all human instincts." (He didn't say why.) e. Homosexuals' definition of self is "irrevocably linked" to that instinct. (He didn't say how he knew.) f. This irrevocable linkage notwithstanding, the Bisexual Gay and Lesbian Students Association is "just another extracurricular activity." (He didn't say how he knew.) g. AALARM...
Though the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution, most people would probably agree with the great Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, who once identified "the right to be let alone" as the prerequisite of a tolerable life. But the fundamental instinct to shield one's personal affairs from the eyes of outsiders is always under pressure from the no less venerable human urge to pry -- and the snoops just may be getting the upper hand these days. Items...
...least shut it down and reorganize it. There are some schools in this state I would not want any of my children attending, and I think it is terribly wrong that we permit them to continue. My first instinct would be to collaborate with the people involved and try to get them to improve the situation. But if that did not work, of course we would want to change the situation...
...Saturday, Fiedler showed his ability to, quite simply, get the job done: to find the open man and deliver that ball. Giardi, in contrast, lights up the game more with his instinct, emotion and sheer athleticism...