Word: instinctiveness
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...this foaming by the Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men is the result of overpopulation, the taking of oneself too seriously, and the herd instinct to compare one's lot with one's fellow...
...economist, Sylvia Porter is sound enough to command the respect of the business community; as historian, she has an instinct for the larger trends too often buried under reports of day-to-day news. She has a genius for translating a snarl of statistics into down-to-earth realities. Her favorite phrase: "What does it all mean...
...Jacques Lipchitz, praises their vitality, says, "They are almost as free as we are today." Sardinians consider them priceless. Said one: "To us the bronzes represent-with simple and powerful plasticity-all the humanity of this island: the concrete details of our daily life, our aspirations, our acute religious instinct, everything characteristic of Sardinian life...
...Nichols-May dialogue is steeped in hilarious vocal nuance. Both have fine ears for inflections of speech, an unerring instinct for the telling mannerisms, whether of a Chicago sharpie, a Virginia gentleman, or a Brooklyn butcher. Their most extraordinary act is to ask an audience for two lines of dialogue, then proceed to improvise a scene on the spot, using one line as the start and the other line as the end. Furthermore, they will produce the dialogue in any literary style the audience suggests-Proust or Erskine Caldwell, Li'l Abner or Samuel Beckett. (A Faulknerian...
...honied words. In the first shock of becoming the hottest musical commodity in the world, Van shuttled between awe and the depressing idea of "all those people making money out of me." But as the offers came pouring in, he began to display flashes of a sound horse-trading instinct. When he heard that both Columbia Records and RCA Victor (and every other big record company) were scrambling to sign him, he told Judd to play them against each other, get him a contract "that'll guarantee that if I go in one day and want to play Clair...