Word: instinctiveness
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...that dread word, commitment. The women work at being hip and wary but are as overmastered by virility as any Victorian maiden ("With his touch, the will seemed to drain out of her"). Susan Minot, who made a notable debut with her 1986 novel Monkeys, has a laser instinct for the clinching detail and the giveaway phrase. She can summon descriptive power when she wants it ("Clouds rose up, golden, fisted, dwarfing the islands"). But the very unity of this collection produces a sameness. The reader begins to wonder, Doesn't Minot know anyone who is married, or older than...
...going to get mine.' " If the big-shot investment banker can take what he wants, often by illegal means, then a teenager may think he should be able to grab the spoils in the only way he knows how. Declares Harvard psychiatrist Robert Coles: "Our culture accentuates instinct instead of inhibiting...
Underlying Mandery's campus political career is a love of competition--as part of a team, against others and, most of all, against himself. That same competitive instinct also shows up in Evan's interest in athletics. Whether as a spectator or as a participant, Evan has made sports a vital part of his life...
Mandery's competitive instinct shows up first in his love of sports. "I like sports," Mandery says. "Sports are probably the thing I get the most enjoyment...
...dinosaur? Anyone who has ever acted on instinct and called it common sense. Everyone who has ever been zealous, fiercely loyal, ruthless, or even submissive or terrified at work. In examining the corporate stomping grounds, the book dredges up some worthwhile wisdom from the tar pits...