Word: instinctiveness
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...plot of From Russia With Love is based on Bond's gaming instinct. The chief of an underworld organization called SPECTRE calculates that the carrot of a secret Russian decoding machine along with a sensuous blond would be more than 007 could resist. By eliminating his enemies for him, SPECTRE attempts to build his confidence in his own luck until he finally overplays his hand. But they fail to consider that James Bond is that special kind of gambler, he always wins...
...finally, does it happen that ordinary people are able to communicate at all, since each speaks his own language? "It's simply one of the inexplicable peculiarities of the coarse empiricism of the masses...a paradox, a nonsense, one of the aberrations of human nature, it's instinct...
...majority leader's position but withdrew when it became obvious that he would be beaten by Carl Albert. Realizing that he would no longer occupy a favored position with the establishment, Bolling turned more unreservedly to reform and the DSG. This was a reflection either of luck or an instinct for power that originally led Bolling into Rayburn's inner group, for reform and liberalism are becoming more powerful and fashionable--the DSG now has over 100 members...
...discrimination. The Governor had promised to see "any citizens of Alabama"-and a committee of 20 petitioners, all Alabamians, had been appointed. But now George Wallace reneged. An aide met the petitioners, blandly told them, "The capitol is closed today." Then Wallace went on television and, with his unerring instinct for impropriety, denounced the civil rights march as "prostitution of lawful process." Said he: "I see that Ralph Bunche, the United Nations man, was here. He's supposed to be defending us against Communists, but today he was consorting with known Communists...
Shaken by her 1959 separation from her husband, Industrialist Giovanni Meneghini, Callas admits to having had a real "vocal crisis" a few years ago. Now 41, she explains: "My biggest mistake was trying to intellectualize my voice. I tried to control an animal instinct instead of leaving it as it was. It set me back years. Professionally, the world of Maria Callas has become a lonely world of a woman looking for her voice...