Word: instinctiveness
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...most annoying thing about Northeastern is that they can drive a goalie wild," said Kimmel. "They don't just shoot on every wild instinct--they wait, they control, and they...
...ways. Yet Reagan's simple, straight-ahead optimism can be deceiving. In the past, he has shown a shrewd sense of political timing, a knack for changing course at just the right moment. The hard choices of Ronald Reagan's second term will test his instinct for compromise, again and again...
...jealousy. "Envy, envy, envy!" cries Capote. "The people simply cannot endure success over too long a period of time. It has to be destroyed." Not since Benvenuto Cellini has there been a major talent with such a courtier's view of his art. His social timing and instinct for wounding gossip were displayed in published sections of his controversial work in progress, Answered Prayers. He refers to it as his "big ace up my sleeve," though since his death neither his publisher nor his friends have been able to find a finished manuscript...
...veteran of zero gravity moves effortlessly and with total control... In contrast, the rookies sail across the same path, usually too fast, trying to suppress the instinct to glide headfirst and with vague swimming motions. They stop by bumping the far wall in precisely the wrong position ... they twist around too rapidly, knocking loose cameras, film magazines, food packages and checklists...
More important than anything else is how an aging but renewed Ronald Reagan reads his own country. Every great President has been a great politician-Jefferson, Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Kennedy-even George Washington, who lived before the age of party politics. They could tell by political instinct how far and how fast they could lead their own people. This will be the test of a second Reagan Administration: its reading of the forces that underlay its election...