Word: instinctiveness
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Many birders get started in their preteen years. "They may get wide-eyed seeing their first 'Baltimore' oriole," says Turner, a birder since age six. "That aesthetic component gets mixed quickly with the urge to collect -- the baseball-card factor -- and the hunting instinct, which is probably in the genes...
...worth dying for . . . Sex is indeed imbued with the death instinct. -- Michel Foucault...
...jump began as a routine skydiving exercise, part of a convention of 420 parachutists sponsored by Skydive Arizona, but it quickly turned into a test of nerve, instinct and courage, carried out within seconds. Moments after he went out the open hatch of a four-engine DC-4 airplane at 9,000 ft. near Coolidge, Ariz., Sky Diver Gregory Robertson, 35, could see that Debbie Williams, 31, a fellow parachutist with a modest 50 jumps to her credit, was in big trouble. Instead of "floating" in the proper stretched-out position parallel to the earth, Williams was tumbling like...
...eyewitness accounts of World War II. When they do occur, it is usually a prelude to decadence or a setup for a crushing loss of innocence. The posthumously published diaries of Marie Vassiltchikov are an exception. The author's record of death and destruction is sustained by a strong instinct for the civilized life. This does not always mean oysters and champagne. Between her lines, it is easy to read sadness for the lost chivalry and ideals of Western culture. Being young and shielded by her status as a refugee from Bolshevism, she does not always understand the demoralizing power...
...form of Reaganism, possibly even under Democratic auspices, will have to cope with that legacy after Reagan is gone. Few Americans want to return to the Great Society style of welfare. The nation can no longer afford that kind of grand buffet, if it ever could. So the instinct for a new compassion, a word that is often heard these days as a signal of recoil against the meannesses of Reaganism, comes abruptly up against hard realities...