Word: instinctiveness
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There are, of course, many honest, straightforward ways to compete with the Calendar, but the CRIMSON turns, as by instinct, to character assassination...
...instinct of the President and his advisers is correct to the extent that investment must be encouraged if the economy is to regain its vigor. The problem here is how to place capital in the hands of new entrepreneurs, much of whose investment will be in plant and whose dollars therefore will have the "multiplier" effect described by Keynes. (It is assumed--necessarily, through perhaps inaccurately--that such men exist, either independent of the large corporations, or within them, but anxious to be free of them...
...covering, or even the sense of precision imposed by modern machinery, has been allowed to hide the fact that architecture through the ages is as much the work of the hand as of the head. As Le Corbusier said in his own royal way: "Le Corbusier has kept the instinct of the prophetic, indispensable, practical and beneficent relations between the hand and the head...
...first, the Administration's instinct was to treat De Gaulle on a tit-for-tat basis, trading insult for insult, injury for injury. That instinct was quickly and wisely restrained...
...stone weapons, and in an open mouth often appear menacing. Even the way a person sits in a chair may reveal whether he is, at heart, gripping a throne or a horse or another human being.' Canetti has small patience for those who think man's basic instinct is self-preservation. Man is not a "statue," writes Canetti, "with one hand reaching for food and with the other fending off its enemies. His way of procuring his prey is cunning, bloodthirsty and strenuous. He does not mildly defend himself but attacks his enemies as he senses them...