Word: instinctiveness
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...word loser is a dirty word in our society. Call a man a son-of-a-bitch and he may grin; you've made him sound tough and manly. Call him a loser and he may fight you because you've made him sound unmanly. from "The Killer Instinct...
...Killer Instinct" is Bob Cousy's personal account, in the context of being a product of American society, of his own will to win, and the devastating emotional and physical effects that this incessant need had upon...
...been ringing true for the past decade in works of greater sensitivity and better detail. Kozol offers neither a new approach to the problem, nor new evidence. In fact, he seems to feel little obligation to base any of his conclusions on evidence, and relies instead on instinct. This weakens Kozol's effort, for the most convincing chapter in the book is one based on his own observations and experience in free schools. He argues that "open" schools can be just as politically indoctrinating as traditional schools, and are all the more dangerous because they bill themselves, and are perceived...
...Gentle Creature. Both of them were sufferers--she the docile one, submissive to his rages and passions, he more volatile, constantly punishing himself for his weaknesses and indulgences. But in her docility she exerted a strange power over him. It wasn't a Machiavellian strategy she used, more an instinct that to directly confront his gambling and jealousy would be fruitless. She did not discourage his compulsive behavior, and in its repercussions--guilt and remorse--he was bound that much more closely...
...Anytime you get a score like that near the end of the half, it hurts the other team," Kurzweil said, "and really picks you up. When you get ahead of a team like we did, your killer instinct is aroused. You want to keep them down, not let them off the hook...