Word: driving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...served two or even three men. They had taken up positions around Umuneke in the thick, bone-dry bush. A blocking party had infiltrated the rear of the village and set up the homemade electrically detonated mines the soldiers call Ojukwu's kettles. The strategy was simplicity itself: drive the Nigerians back onto the mines and detonate them...
Perhaps it could only happen in the strange land of Chicago journalism, but there it was. One of the city's top editors was leading a drive to raise money to defend Chicago cops against charges that they had beaten up reporters during the Democratic National Convention. Although some Chicago editors had treated the police violence gingerly all along, the stand by Jack Mabley, associate editor of Chicago's American, disregarded any sympathy for the abused newsmen and started another caustic press controversy...
...according to Freud, is a biological drive clamoring for gratification from the moment of birth. In normal human beings, its imperatives can be throttled by the rules of morality, but they can never really be denied. In the current issue of Transaction magazine, Sociologists William Simon, 38, and John Henry Gagnon, 37, argue heretically that Freud was mistaken: the sex drive is not strong but weak, and can be easily resisted. Moreover, sex forms no integral part of man's inherited endowment; sexual behavior is something he must learn...
...Beast Within. Gagnon and Simon argue that Freud's error has been compounded by a tendency to confuse the adult obsession with sex, which is powerful, and sex education, which is incessant, with the sex drive-which is neither. "The whole imagery of sexuality as 'the beast within' was true because society defined it as true," says Simon...
...reasons that his theories still command popular respect "is that in a world fraught with instability and change, one wants to be able to hold onto a few universals. Freud tried to define an inner core of constants in man." Among them he placed the sex drive, and in a period of rapid change, it can be comforting to know that some things do not change at all. "But a man's anatomy doesn't become his destiny," Gagnon says. "Man is primarily a social being, unlike the animals, and his destiny is determined socially, not biologically...