Word: instinctiveness
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...expects Charles Melvin Price to make waves as chairman of the Armed Services Committee. He is a party stalwart, almost unknown outside the House, the defense world and his downstate Illinois district. Notably, he lacks the arrogance of his predecessor, F. Edward Hébert, and any instinct for newspaper headlines...
...development of any culture worthy of the name. He then focuses on other nomads who domesticated only one animal - the horse - and turned it into the basis of a new and terrible art, that of warfare. Bronowski is critical of ethologists who insist that man has some inborn instinct for organized violence. War, he says, is nothing but "a highly planned cooperative effort of theft," rationalized by "the predator posing as hero." Cultures that live by the sword alone "can only feed on the labors of other men." They inevitably die, often because they are absorbed by the gentler, more...
Hector Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust (Seiji Ozawa conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus; Deutsche Grammophon, 3 LPs, $23.94). Rhythm and an instinct for drama animate Ozawa's shaping of this Berlioz semiopera. Although it overflows with melody, Berlioz's musical transformation of Goethe is generally known only by three orchestral pieces- the exuberant Rákdóczy March, the Dance of the Sylphs and the Minuet of the Will o' the Wisp. With out diminishing the lushness of the com poser's symphonic texture, Ozawa's crisp tempi...
...hero, Leone Gala (John McMartin), tries to live a life of detached rationality, and has granted his wife Silia (Joan Van Ark) an amicable separation so that she can accommodate a lover. She is a tempestuous creature of instinct who is maddeningly irked by one fact: Leone shows no visible jealousy. She begs her lover Guido (David Dukes) to kill her husband, but he does not really take the plea seriously, and besides he has no stomach for the assignment...
Uncluttered Style. The selections were drawn from a repertory of more than 300 pieces, many by Composer Lewis, whose uncluttered keyboard probings set MJQ's style. Lewis etched an outline of Sigmund Romberg's Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise. One by one, cued only by instinct, his colleagues joined him: the genial Heath, eyes closed, his fingertips lightly brushing the strings, while Kay, the pulsemaker, fabricated a succinct beat ornamented by miniature percussive effects-rippling wind chimes. Jackson's keyboard work at the vibes, reminiscent of Art Tatum's quicksilver piano, provided the melodic keystone...