Word: instinctiveness
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Bennett Webster, a lawyer and Republican county chairman in Iowa, may have an accurate instinct for popular sentiment: "The majority of people feel impeachment is too drastic, that the country can't stand it. It's more a fear of the unknown than anything else-a deep-seated fear of a radical proceeding." Says Thomas Campbell, a professor of history at Cleveland State University: "An impeachment process would disrupt the country, and we can't afford it. I'm concerned about other problems in the country-the monetary crisis, the food and housing difficulties...
...withstanding the bureaucratic instinct to stamp a document "secret" or at least "restricted" no one would deny that a government has the right to protect the confideniality of certain information. But what? The news of impending military activity in wartime is an obvious example; the technical details of weaponry and other scientific information are another. The technology of espionage itself requires protection: the codes, the methods and the identity of agents...
What remained for him was the fact of painting, the reflex actions of being a painter - turning out canvases rather as a scalp, having no choice in the matter, grows hair. The subjects are only nominal, shallow receptacles for Picasso's prodigious instinct to survive. Their existence owes itself to fate, not to necessity. In this way, Picasso's last show is a depressing commentary on the idea that it is better to paint any thing than nothing; two years of silence would have rounded off that singular life better than these calamitous daubs...
...PETER DE VRIES 274 pages. Little, Brown. $7.95. "Domesticity," Peter De Vries has said, "is an instinct-just like sex." So it is not surprising that most of his comic novels have been-in one way or another-about post-dishwashing tristesse. It is that pleasantly sad feeling that follows doing the right thing...
...instinct is right for the longer run. His best reparation to the American people will be in redoubled effort on the stubborn problems of domestic policy and follow-through on his statesmanlike openings in foreign policy. The public, for its part, is already coming down off some of the more overblown views of the presidency, and that is why so many people are able to see considerable good coming from Watergate. The public has perceived that the President of the United States, even as other men, can be very good at some things and quite deficient in others...