Word: instinctiveness
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Deserted because Harvard, with its characteristic instinct for the jugular, chooses to have its vacations at times when all self-respecting colleges don't. If you're going to the same old place for vacation, you don't even have the comfort of the same old faces. With no change of scene and no old high school friends to catch up with, vacation survival means avoiding major confrontations with your nearest and dearest and a continuous battle with ennui. Now don't get me wrong, I love my family. But it is a strain to spend seven uninterrupted days...
...Blumenthal had met secretly in Paris with European monetary officials, currency traders assumed that a dollar-propping agreement would be announced at last week's monthly meeting of central bankers in Basel, Switzerland. None was forth coming, and the selloff of dollars started anew. By midweek the herd instinct had taken hold, and in Switzerland the dollar lost 1.5% in value in a single day, one of its largest one-day drops. That will make Swiss vacations more expensive for American tourists - if they can find anyone to exchange dollars for them...
...woman who came of age 20 years ago, Eliza is well versed in the arts of discretion and coping. She has to be. Her sexually ambivalent husband killed himself after becoming keen on a beautiful boy, leaving her with a baby daughter and an unfulfilled life. Eliza has little instinct for what her mother Josephine calls the "social realities." Josephine is formidable: a successful writer with another daughter and a number of former husbands left in or under the dust. She is also a hardheaded survivor of the spaghetti-and-Chianti bohemian liberalism of the '30s. "Since...
...especially a wideeyed four-year-old boy (Gary Guffey) ?are those who are most open to experiencing the unexpected. Only the innocent seize the clues that lead to Close Encounters' equivalent of Oz, the spot where the space visitors will land. Only those who are willing to follow instinct can begin to grasp the extraterrestrials' unique, nonverbal language. Though Spielberg is certainly propagandizing for a belief in UFOs in Close Encounters, any polemics he indulges in are against all the many forms of cynicism that cripple the imagination...
...Paul has great running instinct, excellent speed and super acceleration," the veteran mentor continued. "He's a natural leader and a great competitor; in fact, anything positive you could say about him is true. Connors is just an outstanding person," Park commented...