Word: instinctiveness
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Some of the new Eisenhower literature goes much beyond a claim that he did nothing harmful. In Eisenhower the President, William Ewald Jr., one of his speech writers, contends that Ike was a masterly administrator and a subtle protector of presidential authority and options, with a sure instinct for when finally to commit. He also argues that the legislative record was at least as constructive as that of various "activist" Administrations of the recent past. All in all, says Ewald, "eight good years-I believe the best in memory...
Rather, he has a close instinct for the disconnected emblems of a moment-the faces glimpsed in smeared newsprint, the sense of not having the whole story that comes from living at no remove from traumatic events...
Sadat was a visionary with a talent for astonishing; he had a Clausewitzian instinct ("For great aims, we must dare great things"). He was also a profound, serene fatalist-which may have been the secret of his equilibrium. Such fatalism might serve others well now. Since 1970, 22 heads of state or government have been assassinated. As Theologian Paul Tillich remarked: "Death has become powerful in our time." -By Lance Morrow
...usual Arab style. Sadat was in a class by himself." Says Harvard University Professor Nadav Safran, a Cairo-born Jew: "Sadat broke away in order to lead. He broke away in order to explore the road ahead, at great risk to himself. He proved that his instinct and vision were correct, that if he moved ahead far enough and reached at least one oasis, he could point the way of the caravan out of the wilderness...
...messianic style. It came back across the Atlantic in the '30s and '40s, and then was academized. Without doubt, the reign of the curtain wall and the spread of a debased sort of rubber-stamp corporate modernism were helped by the factors Wolfe lists: fashion, snobbery, herd instinct and the colonial cringe. Mainly, the glass box won because it was cheap to build. But it just might be that the American patrons of mainstream modernism were not as dumb or masochistic about their glass boxes as Wolfe thinks. What if they felt, on some instinctive level, that those...