Word: instinctiveness
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While Americans are always some what skeptical of the motives of anyone in power, the events of the past 20 years, especially the economic woes of the past decade, have sharpened that instinct. Thus as inflation and unemployment rose to historic highs, barometers of public trust in the performance of institutions were falling to record lows. The authors ask: Is the much touted crisis of confidence in U.S. institutions really a perceived crisis of competence in those in charge? Is it simply democracy at work...
...flirted with silliness, but its power to spur the ambition of young authors cannot be discounted. The paradox of Mailer's career is that his pursuit of this white whale proved the quest in his case unnecessary. He became a major writer without becoming a major novelist. His instinct to abandon fiction for long periods was, given his talents and temperament, entirely correct. His unique value among his contemporaries proved to be the witness he could bear to his age and its possible consequences. His energy and imagination have been aroused most keenly by doubt, the sense that every...
...pack, its prey the female. Her difference is the instigator, her frailty the goad. Rape what you cannot have. Plunder what you can never know. Mystery equals fear equals rage equals death. It is she who stands for all life's threats, she who released animal instinct in the first place. Once aroused, why stop to reason or sympathize? The savage surfaces, prevails...
...instinct, Ronald Reagan is no friend of protectionism, and he has gone to some lengths to prove it. His Administration has consistently attempted to blunt the intentions of some protection-minded members of Congress concerned with high levels of domestic unemployment. The President firmly believes that, as he has put it, "free trade serves the cause of economic progress and the cause of world peace." But even an ardent free-marketeer can make exceptions. Last week Reagan did, in a way that brought surprise and outrage from Japanese officials. Slapping an elevenfold increase on American tariffs for, of all things...
Life here isn't easy, but most of us seem willing to tolerate the pressure and fight for some degree of personal accomplishment. We conserve our energies primarily for activities that contribute to a broadly defined program of training for post-college life. When this instinct chains a person to a library desk, it is regrettable. But having recognized its dangers and spurned some of its more distasteful products. I firmly believe that, on balance. I have benefited from the Harvard grind...