Word: drivingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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sublimation. Harnessing an Iddish desire into a decent disguise (e.g., taking out an unconscious sexual or aggressive drive in work, play...
...Make No Mistake." With the postwar church drive to expand and modernize education facilities across the Dominion, things began to hum at Ottawa. A medical school was added in 1945, and $1,212,295 raised for a building to house it. The university also got a new rector, genial Father Jean-Charles Laframboise (French for the raspberry). No cloistered scholar, Le Père Recteur is ambitious for his school. Of the $250,000 grant the Ontario government gave his medical school last year he says: "It was not a grant; it was the first grant. Make no mistake...
...Switzerland, with small-circulation papers and not much big news, said Crossman, "Gresham's law of journalism does not operate. Hot news in Switzerland does not drive out cold information . . . The Swiss press's . . . major purpose is to inform, not to increase circulation ... Thus it has avoided both the French disease of political corruption and the Anglo-Saxon disease of sensationalism...
...kinds of love and pleasure, from eating to a fondness for abstract thought. His emphasis on sex caused bitter breaks with two of his most famous followers: Carl Jung, who was sniffy about Freud's emphasis on "sexuality" in infants, and Alfred Adler, who believed that a "drive for power" was equal in importance with "sexual urges...
Nevertheless, it was the cheap ($700 f.o.b. France), amazingly efficient new Citroën that stole the Paris show. Features: a two-cylinder, air-cooled engine, that is said to get more than 60 miles to the gallon (at an average speed of 38 m.p.h.); front-wheel drive, all-round torsion-bar suspension, a fabric top that rolls up like a windowshade. Perhaps the strangest-looking car at the Paris show was the Dyna-Panhard's "Dynavia" whose ultra-Studebakerish use of glass gave it the air of an airplane cockpit (its two-cylinder engine gets 30 miles...