Word: intuitionism
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Faithful to this rigid ritual, few writers busy paying for their swimming pools and Thunderbirds with Private Eye cash could take the facetious oath of Britain's Detection Club-that their heroes "shall well and truly detect the crimes presented to them . . . not placing reliance on nor making use...
Far from exposing her secret life with J. Edgar-whom she has never met-Dolly Schiff revealed nothing more sensational than her own insinuation that the No. 1 G-man had stopped at practically nothing in an effort to kill a series of stories on the FBI about to begin...
¶ Thomas Eakins, by Fairfield Porter, views the greatest of American masters through a reducing glass, calls him "outside of his time, because his intuition was hindsight," and yet is a consistently brilliant and fascinating offbeat analysis.
When an upset stomach forced an obviously tired Queen Elizabeth to take a couple of days off from her Canadian tour, London's Daily Herald cried out in alarm: THE QUEEN IS EXHAUSTED BRING HER HOME! "The truth is Her Majesty has the colly-wobbles," said the Daily Mirror...
¶ Philip G. Pavia himself waves the new banner of forgetfulness, or "non-history": "Associating present sensations with past experience is normal and even necessary in everyday living, but such associations are poisonous in creating art. When the process of association fills the initial intuition with the pastness of dead...