Word: instinctiveness
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John Grey Gorton, 56, likes to say that he is "Australian to my boot heels." He is an avid sportsman (tennis, swimming, water-skiing), a cool politician with an instinct for shrewdness and enterprise, and a demanding boss with a reputation for firmness and hard work. Sworn in last week as Australia's 19th Prime Minister-succeeding the late Harold Holt, who drowned last month off Portsea (TIME, Dec. 29)-Gorton is also very much his own man. He will probably wield a stronger, more decisive leadership than Holt and bend slightly to the left in his domestic policy...
...baroque; Eva and Modesty Blaise, though self-conscious and dramatically weak, come close to Losey at his strongest and most asured in his choice of camera angel, subject, and movement. Accident is Losey at his most disciplined. Still, one suspects come fear behind the self-control, a lack of instinct as to how to treat the material, Due largely to sloppy lab work, I suspect, the color is disappointing, but Accident's acting, by Bogarde, Stanley Baker, and Vivienne Merchant, is extraordinary...
There is no simple explanation for sloppy play. Lack of confidence, game jitters and the absence of the killer instinct all have a part. A hustling team wil pick up the loose ball, get the second shot rebound and win the close games...
...Truman: That little bastard imagines himself a patriot. It was really his street-fighting instinct that got him to react to the invasion of South Korea...
...dramatic terms, Ghelderode is the antithesis of Brecht. Ghelderode trusted in instinct; Brecht worshiped intellect. Brecht called for a didactic theater of ideology; Ghelderode scorned ideologies and celebrated the theater of magic, spectacle and mystery. He saw all men divided and torn on a Manichaean battleground of darkness and light, flesh and spirit, and he never lost his conviction that they danced at the end of fate's string. If his plays are sometimes episodic and full of antic despair, they also display the probing gallantry of quests. Ghelderode could say with his hero in Christophe Colomb: "Farewell, America...