Word: instinctiveness
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Feathered Lizards. Just as shallow is Ardrey's use of bird territoriality to justify violent human greed. Birds are feathered lizards whose instinct-dominated brains do not resemble the brain of man; consequently, their customs have little bearing on human affairs. When Ardrey tries to draw human lessons from the property instincts and sex relationships of lions, antelopes, baboons, seals, monkeys and many other animals, he gets hopelessly mixed up. No wonder; he should not have tried. Each species has its special and widely differing customs, and seldom do they resemble the ways of social man. Perhaps the most...
...remains the most naturally gifted-and potentially the greatest-soprano now singing. Her voice, which has been compared to a Stradivarius because of its violinlike legato line, is as warm and as opulent as any in opera; her handling of it is a wonder of intelligence sharpened by instinct. No singer, not even Callas, has a more acute dramatic sense, as Soprano Price has demonstrated in her definitive portrayals of Aïda, Butterfly, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Minnie in this season's Met opener, The Girl of the Golden West. ("You can get into this part," said...
...snowball like a humorous, extravagant folktale. He hires out for a wife, works seven years only to get the wrong girl, and has to start all over again. And with each new wife he receives, there is a slave girl who also becomes involved in Jacob's rather generous instinct for fatherhood. You see what I mean...
...learners, found that their major block was a fear of losing attention if they made any real progress in learning. Bruner got results by ridding them of reliance on external rewards or punishments. Working with normal children, he soon decided that learning is best achieved by freeing the human instinct to synthesize-in sum, by stressing the "act of discovery...
...profession. "I thought to put 'gentleman,' but decided that I did not look the part. 'Bankrupt?' Accurate, but liable to cause prejudice. By what had I kept myself alive for the greater part of my adult life? By faith. Faith and appeal to motherly instinct in the middle-aged . . . Evidently I had no profession...