Word: instinctiveness
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...conclusions are less metaphysical than those of Antoine de St. Exupery but not fundamentally different : "It was impossible to look only to oneself, to take from life and not to give except by accident . . . instinct had served them. Each time they climbed into their machines and looked off into combat, they were paying silent tribute to their comrades who were dead...
William James, Harvard's pragmatic philosopher who wrote like a novelist, "was, like the fascists, exalting the claims of action, will, and feeling over thought, of intuition and instinct ever analytic intelligence," according to Donald C. Williams, associate professor of Philosophy in an interview over the Crimson Network last night...
Actor Evans always holds the stage; he does not always portray his part. His Macbeth at times has a tortured imagination and reckless cruelty, but never a great warrior's strength or a tragic hero's stature. Evans has the instinct of a reciter, a soloist, reaching out with vocal magnetism to the audience rather than working in with his fellow actors on the stage. He doesn't, for example, talk to the murderers of Banquo; the murderers simply seem to be there so that he can talk. He brings more to the play than...
Everybody knew the salmon's mysterious life cycle-how it disappears into the Pacific for at least three years and then, forced by irresistible instinct, drives itself back through fresh water, eating nothing on its hundreds of miles journey upstream to the spot where it was spawned. Nothing can stop it but death. But ever since the building of the great dams on the Columbia, the Northwest has been concerned about the effect they would have on the salmon. Bonneville, 170 feet high, has fish ladders that the salmon use in going up. But still nobody knows how many...
...under difficulties, Britain's youngsters have learned to amuse themselves in shelters, to sleep under kitchen tables, under stairs or at their desks. Even nursery-school tots know what to do when Teacher cries: "Run, rabbits, run!" The war has given unexampled score to children's natural instinct for collecting: they collect paper, bottles, bones, aluminium, scrap -it all goes into the war effort. Wartime schooling has also taught Britain's educators a big lesson: when they tried to cut down to the three Rs, pupils quickly became bored. To revive them, teachers had to give them...