Word: intuitionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The metaphysics of the possibilities can flare and darken. The Holocaust and other catastrophes of the 20th century invite the term post-apocalyptic. But a world veering toward the 21st century sometimes has an edgy intuition that it is "pre-apocalyptic." Last summer Francis Fukuyama, a State Department planner, resolved...
That the situation in Panama was confused and information inadequate is nothing new for such incidents. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, a crisis manager of considerable success, claims that in almost every crunch there is never enough information and always uncertainty, and the final decision must frequently ride more...
Did Bush know? Was he too preoccupied with his busy White House schedule, not attentive enough to this festering problem? Was it a time when intuition should have prodded him to act?
This time around, though, few will challenge Clancy's claim that simple research and intuition give his books their uncanny sense of realism.
A. Apparently, there is some sort of intuition. We don't know where it comes from, but we have it. From the age of nine, I knew I was going to be a writer, although I didn't know what I was going to write about. Shortly after that, I...