Word: instinctiveness
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...Rocky, winner of all of his 37 fights (32 by knockouts), acted as if he had never heard of Joe Louis. Crowding, bulling, pumping and pummeling with short-range piston blows, Rocky wrestled Joe around the ring. In the early rounds, Joe made a stand, fighting with some inner instinct that could still make his aging body respond on cue. Sharp, probing Louis lefts started a mouse under Rocky's right eye. But when Joe spotted openings in Marciano's vulnerable defense, he could not follow through with his once explosive right; when he did, it was almost...
Whether or not it can corrupt anyone's morals, La Ronde (Commercial Pictures) is clearly suitable for grownups and almost as certain to delight them. Based on Arthur Schnitzler's Reigen, it takes an intimate, cynical view of the mating instinct at play in a Vienna that was turning the century without a break in its giddy stride. Director Max (Letter to an Unknown Woman) Ophuls has lovingly put together this wry ode to love, and brightened it with a galaxy of Continental stars: Anton Walbrook, Danielle Darrieux, Fernand Gravet, Simone Simon, Gerard Philipe, Simone Signoret, Isa Miranda...
What, then, is Harvardmanship? Briefly, it is the Art of Overwhelming Friends and Stupefying People. Many of you, of course, have been practicing this art unconsciously, overwhelming a friend here or stupefying a roommate there, by instinct alone. And the history of amateur Harvardmanship goes back many centuries to a bright spring day in 1641, when Abijah Winthrop appeared for a Latin lesson dressed in a toga, murmuring that he felt closer to the spirit of ancient Rome that way. This so unnerved his tutor that he failed to discover that Abijah had not prepared his lesson...
What, then, is Harvardmanship? Briefly, it is the Art of Overwhelming Friends and Stupefying People. Many of you, of course, have been practicing this art unconsciously, overwhelming a friend here or stupefying a roommate there, by instinct alone. And the history of amateur Harvardmanship goes back many centuries to a bright spring day in 1641, when Abijah Winthrop appeared for a Latin lesson dressed in a toga, murmuring that he felt closer to the spirit of ancient Rome that way. This so unnerved his tutor that he failed to discover that Abijah had not prepared his lesson...
...moderns are contemptuous of outward appearance; it does not follow that we are humble. Clothes, after all, are only (as it were) a sacramental manifestation of the instinct we all have, to hide our defects from the world's scrutiny. The 'folly of the Cross,' the placarding of our human weakness, is something more intimate than the mere stripping off of outward paraphernalia...