Word: instinctiveness
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...advice, is in the stagecoach held up just outside of Shinbone by Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin), "the toughest man south of the Picket Wire." Trying to defend a woman passenger, Stoddard is beaten by Valance, left for dead, and brought to town by Tom Doniphon. Stoddard's first instinct is to demand the arrest of Liberty Valance; Doniphon tells him that law books mean nothing out West, that if Stoddard wants to take Valance, he'd better start carrying a hand...
...kind of admissions office would be a perfect testing ground for their administrative skills and interest in students. Monro was hired by Bender in 1946, when all this was still an idea; eight years later, Monro was in charge of financial aid. And that year, with the same instinct, Bender hired Glimp...
...most extravagant conductor at Harvard. Flam-boyance is all right if it corresponds to what the orchestra is doing, but Hathaway's gestures were for the most part superflous and asked for momentous musical events where they were not called for. He did show an uncanny instinct for pace, but his excellent section leaders should share credit for this. On the whole, he behaved as though he were conducting a mammoth Romantic orchestra like the Berlin Philharmonic, in blatant contradiction to the classical and chamber-like possibilities of the orchestra and his own program...
...number of wild ideas he's got is enormous," says a student who has worked with Monro at Miles and clearly likes him. Both as Harvard administrator and a part-time Faculty member at Miles, Monro has been the source of many new schemes. Some of these spring from instinct, from a hasty appraisal of the facts of the situation. They seem plausible at first, but on examination appear full of problems. As a result, Monro must retract some and allow others to slide to a slow death. At times, they make him appear foolish. But some of them dowork...
...often infallible instinct--a blend of pragmatic expertise and first-hand information--has made him one of the leading Soviet experts in the State Department. In 1959, he was recalled by Secretary of State Herter to serve in the newly created Bureau of Soviet Affairs. One of his associates has commented, "His special ability is his sense of political interrelationships. He can take an event and immediately see its impact on a whole series of other events in widely separated parts of the world...