Word: instinctiveness
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...axioms were demolished by Carter's flinty will power, his almost arrogant self-confidence, his instinct to ask his listeners to "trust me" and his fetching promise to give them "a Government as good and as competent and as compassionate as are the American people." The talk about trust and love sounded too vague to many. But he was a candidate of the 1970s, and he knew that the voters were more concerned about the overriding issue of moral leadership than about the big-spending liberal programs of the 1960s. He did more than just defeat a dozen other Democrats...
...detached. He does not look at the U.S. as though it were a totally strange country thousands of miles away. The reason goes beyond the presence there of a great Jewish community with which there exists a profound bond of religion and history. It reaches deep into the national instinct...
...Ladbroke's hand: "We could never understand how a man so clever in business could be so stupid as to sit there all night throwing money away." One friend blamed Sir Hugh's failed marriages for causing a "glandular imbalance" that impaired his gambler's instinct and made him stay far too long at the wheels. He certainly did not learn from his father, who also enjoyed gambling. Says Sir Hugh: "The great difference between my father and me was that he knew when to stop...
HALSMAN: I never was an apprentice or assistant to another photographer. Everything that I know I learned by trial and error. I considered every assignment as a problem and my picture as its solution. I don't belong to photographers who shoot out of instinct--a lot of thinking goes into my taking or should I say making of pictures. A photograph is not only the solution of a photographic problem, it is also a statement of the photographer about his subject. The deeper the photographer, the deeper his statement. Therefore, in my opinion, the photographer should not concentrate solely...
...confrontation-owes much to the conventional thriller. But Cutter and Bone is much more than skillful entertainment. The places and people ring true, from the desperate hedonism of coastal California, "where America kept trying out the future," to the Ozarks heartland, where piety and patriotism barely camouflage a native instinct for violence. Cutter and Bone's own story is charged with a kind of passionate cynicism that makes even grotesques seem likable and, more important, credible right up to the last, startling sentence. Philip Herrera