Word: instinctiveness
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...that there is any question about what Kennedy did during his Presidency; the issue seems to be the way he did it. Sorensen's Kennedy is a man of pragmatic instinct, distrustful of liberal intellectuals, his chief preoccupation domestic politics and the domestic economy. He liked football; he liked Casablanca and Spartacus-- "nothing too arty or actionless." Schlesinger's Kennedy is instinctively broadminded; he actually opposed the Bay of Pigs, Schlesinger thinks. Where Sorensen never mentions Adlai Stevenson's name without irritation, Schlesinger sees in Kennedy a bit of an old Stevensonian. Though their personal relations were marred...
...defense. But the pros are 260-pounders, and you're not going to run over them very often." By his own definition, Brown is an unorthodox runner: rather than depend on a play working out the way the diagram says it should, he relies on his instinct to sense the spot where a hole is about to open, on his reflexes and agility to get him there in time...
Enough has been said about Floyd's Hamlet complex. You don't need a killer instinct to beat the likes of Brian London, Roy Harris, and Peter Rademacher. But the thought that Floyd, if he got a good opening against City, would be even odds not to follow it up, is sad indeed. Clay said on television this weekend. "If Patterson ever dreamt he knocked me out, he'd apologies...
Indeed not. The instinct for adventure and excitement remains. In Victorian England, with its relative wealth and opportunity for the leisured, complacent life, the compulsion for adventure was far from stifled; rather, it flared forth in a golden age of English exploration and mountaineering. Similarly, but even more so, many Americans of the 1960s refuse to react to prosperity as though it were the smoke from the poppy seed, and instead feel it as the thorn that goads them toward the bold, dangerous and somehow immensely satisfying fundamentals of existence...
British military tradition seems useless. Opposed to both men is the camp provost (Tom Courtenay), a working-class martinet who brandishes the rule book on behalf of justice and fair play, though his real battle is against anyone superior to himself by instinct or birth...