Word: instinctiveness
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Slum kids have an animal instinct for sizing up a leader, but few Harvard students have difficulty in establishing their authority over the groups they work with, providing they aren't provoked easily by youthful antics, and are quick to enforce the rules of the House. Good clothes and a college education are strong elements in prestige. Photography, dramatics, radio, boxing and wrestling, and mechanics are but a few of the many hobbies and fields of instruction taught at the settlement houses by undergraduate social service workers...
...testified by almost every paragraph and page of "My New Order," Hitler is first, last, and always a nationalist. Yet his patriotism is not an ennobling devotion, but a hideous, unilateral, exclusive thing which makes of faith a disease. Every moral rule, every conception of justice, every instinct of tolerance has been whittled and twisted by his virulent mind to fit not humans everywhere, but the Germans alone. And when principle stops at national boundaries, only force reaches out beyond. Hitler's fanatic nationalism explains the unending lies and invectives with which his speeches groan...
...defensive maneuver Budenny instinctively knows only one thing, and that instinct has been his one guide in the battle of the Ukraine. During the Revolution, Trotsky once scolded him for not sending in a written report about a battle...
Into this tableau of confusion, uncertainty and division struck the House of Representatives last week. They saw the mess and, with unerring Congressional instinct, charged into it. They did so in an attempt to forestall a gradual liquidation of Washington's defense $1-a-yearlings, and their replacement by New Dealers. They had already seen that at point after point power over priorities was going back to the New Dealers, and away from the businessmen and the conservative military high command...
Engineer of the sex instinct, they said, is a nickel-sized area of tissue at the base of the brain called the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus throws the switch for all man's primitive emotions-rage, fear, desire. Normally the hypothalamus is checked by the more civilized cerebral cortex. But sometimes the leash is broken and the hypothalamus runs wild, ignoring, as a neurologist once remarked, "refinements of decency and convention...