Word: instinctiveness
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...different sort of instinct for Americana was evident in the Sierra Nevada where 100 years ago, a poetastering highwayman named Black Bart used to rob stagecoaches and leave behind such doggerel...
Irrepressible Instinct. Loeb's notions may be less radical than they seem. Already scores of countries have introduced some form of nationwide legalized gambling. New York and New Hampshire are trying to outdo the numbers racket and pick up extra revenue with their own lotteries. New Jersey is due to follow suit. Pennsylvania uses horse-race betting to help finance both private and public schools. In January, New York City will start a computerized off-track betting service that may branch into other sports as well. Last week the country's top oddsmaker, Jimmy ("The Greek") Snyder...
Gambling is an irrepressible instinct and a national passion, Loeb warns, so there is no acceptable alternative to Government control. Unless gambling profits are channeled into public coffers, he demonstrated statistically, "organized crime will have a trillion dollars 15 years from now, which means those people will own the country...
Joffrey possesses a shrewd, show-bizzy instinct, not merely for what his dancers can manage but for what his audiences will swallow. So far he has avoided full-length ballets in the Russian tradition on the grounds that a Swan Lake or a Giselle would expose more of the company's faults than its virtues. Nonetheless, the question remains as to how long this promising fancy-free troupe can survive on nerve, verve and youthful fervor. When will it undertake major pieces that demand dramatic development rather than mere disciplined dazzle...
...certainly that the soul of Western man is dead to government in the grand manner of Pope and King? Are the above-mentioned events "merely coincidental"? Or do we have here a natural and historic joining of the instinct for self-preservation with the urge toward that grand manner...