Word: instinctiveness
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...mistake in an article on electronics [March 27] to refer to an electronic device as being mechanical. Much worse is your calling a computer a brain. A brain has approximately 10 billion neurons, logic and memory units, and possesses the capabilities of instinct, intuition and imagination. A computer can have the equivalent of about 100,000 neurons and is a complex tool to magnify man's intellect. It is very important that the public understand what computers are and what they are not because of the increasing impact of computers on our society. DONN B. PARKER...
...still has the haggling instinct of her Brooklyn childhood and sometimes puts the weight of her new fame behind it, often insisting on discounts at local stores ("Listen, don't I deserve a discount or something? I mean, after all"), or ordering a secretary to "tell them that if they want my business, they'd better knock $2 off that bill...
...times have changed. "The Eve of today needs bigger and better leaves to catch the man of her wishes. She also needs instinct, feminine intelligence, and as sharp and observant an eye as any monkey or cat was ever born with." A considerable bank account helps, but Mrs. Guinness is not bothered by such trivia...
What about the dowdies? Those senseless frumps who haven't the instinct, or cash, to wear the right clothes? Mrs. Guinness advises a career for which a uniform is required. "A religious order would be infinitely the best choice." The woman who is not wild about convents can always settle down and start breeding. No one cares what she's wearing then. Even Mrs. Guinness admits that: "Fortunately, we do not have to have our clothes on when busy multiplying ourselves...
...takes his specimens home, adds models from his own garden, examines them with a magnifying glass to capture their curvy novelty. He roughs out his ideas in scale drawings in pastel and charcoal before taking up his chisel and hammer. Yet his instinct with natural material rules his work. His guide is "marrying the inner intention to the wood"; like the action painter who follows the nature of his paint, Muir runs with the grain...