Word: instinctiveness
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...family moved to a cotton farm near the hamlet of Bug Tussle. * Young Carl went to the two-room Bug Tussle school, then to high school in McAlester (he was the first Bug Tussle pupil ever to progress as far as a high school diploma). He showed an early instinct for politics, at the age of 15 took the stump for the local Democratic candidate for the state legislature. At the University of Oklahoma, Albert majored in political science, was student council president, Phi Beta Kappa, a tournament bridge player, a sprinter, a 118-lb. wrestler (he now weighs...
...Treatment. Whether with his family, at a casual dinner with friends, or working among his trusted aides, Kennedy has one overwhelming interest that shapes all his actions: politics. By instinct and training, he is a political creature who works 25 hours a day at politics...
...opposing the First World War Russell prophesied that, following a German defeat, "the ordinary German...would resolve the be found better prepared next time and would follow the advice of his militarists more faithfully." "When two dogs fight in the street," he said, "no one supposes that anything but instinct prompts them, or that they are inspired by high and noble ends. They fight merely because something angers them in each other's smells. What is true of dogs in the street equally true of nations in the present war." Although Russell persisted in voicing his un-Wilsonian sentiments until...
...such comedy may be amusing, but it is also serious commentary on human life. "Gleason has gorgeous creative juices," says Requiem's Producer David Susskind with purple accuracy. "He is a thundering talent-the kind of raw, brilliant talent that has gone out of style, with as much instinct in drama as in comedy...
...four paintings at a time to save paint ("I do the blue for one sky and then the three other skies"), and following her own rules, she always worked from the top down, filling in the fields and farmhouses, the toylike trees and stubby little figures simply by instinct. Before long, she was big business, with her affairs being handled in Manhattan by Otto Kallir. director of the St. Etienne Gallery. Her canvases fetched as much as $10,000 and wherever she went, people asked her for her "monogram...