Word: intuitionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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As he sees it, intuition, at least the successful kind, is something more than vague presentiment. The sifting of personal experience is an important part of the intuitive faculty. Rowan approvingly quotes the late Joyce Hall, founder of the Hallmark greeting-card empire, who called memory "the vapor of past...
A formidable enemy of intuition, according to Rowan, is "analysis paralysis," a condition caused by too much inquiry. "Constantly accumulating new information . . . without giving the mind a chance to percolate and come to a conclusion intuitively can delay any important decision until the time for action expires," he says. That...
Right on the scholarly mark. Reagan's experience and intuition tell him the same things many scholars are finding from their study in the library stacks. To make Government smaller and more efficient, the presidency may need more power to trim here and discard there. To make Government more effective...
Reagan and his advisers could not, of course, foresee all of the side effects and the spillovers from their direct action. In many ways, the President's decision was an intuitive response--his strongest suit. Such is often the case with crisis management and, indeed, with political leadership in general...
All the recent books on the late George Balanchine contain magic. The authors, whether biographers or dancers who have worked for him, have a singular advantage: an indestructible central character. A choreographer of genius, Mr. B. had a marvelous, ample personality. He was riveting to watch, hilarious to listen to...