Word: instinctiveness
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TIME'S Aug. 6 article, "How Are Your Teeth?" quotes Dr. Hans Neumann: "The chewing of pencils, leather, or pieces of wood by children should be regarded as a wholesome instinct...
...Have to Think." Though Dick worries about his chief opponents, he plays them mostly by instinct and experience. Says he: "You just know, somehow, how to play each guy ... I don't have to think. With Larsen, I just try to overpower him. Flam, I play his forehand. With Sedgman, you have to keep the ball deep, he comes to the net so much. He and Larsen are the quickest. With McGregor, you just can't let him volley. Patty doesn't let you play good-looking tennis. Flam hits those looper balls. Before the war, they...
Since neither black bread nor sugar cane can be found in U.S. metropolitan areas, Dr. Neumann concludes: "The chewing of pencils, leather or pieces of wood by children should be regarded as a wholesome instinct and not as a neurotic trait...
...Duff cannot afford to stay in the outfield for long. As eastern manager of the Eisenhower-for-President forces, he counts on controlling Pennsylvania's big, 67-man delegation to the Republican convention. By instinct and inclination, Grundyites prefer Taft. With Governor Fine running the state government and playing ball with Grundy, Jim Duff is in danger of finding himself a manager with only half a team...
...Pentagonian always lives "by the book." Confronted with a problem, his instinct is to find a precedent (nothing makes a Pentagonian feel snugger than to curl up inside a precedent), to make a survey, to appoint an "ad hoc" committee, or, if possible, to hand the problem to someone else. When "the flap is on," a process which can be set off by as little as a Congressman's letter or a sudden demand from a Chief of Staff, he responds by producing a protective cloud of paper in which he can safely disappear in a smother of initials...