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...will blame him for hustling his own products, or think him entirely wrong? Meanwhile, in California, a lanky 38-year-old tennis pro named Timothy Gallwey is becoming a national personality (with his own TV show and a bestselling book called The Inner Game of Tennis) by blending Freud and Zen in his instruction and telling audiences that the way to play tennis, and the great game of life as well, is to win the inner struggle with yourself...
...Freud were living at this hour, he would not have to ask "What does a woman want?" The answer is a big serve. The spectacle of women trying to prove that anatomy is not destiny and ?temporarily, at least, turning into cavepersons on the mixed-doubles courts as a result?may be either good news or bad in the long run. One who thinks cutthroat competition for women is bad is Anthropologist Margaret Mead. She admits that if women turn their backs on the home and childbearing, they may need sport to give them confidence in their bodies...
...infant-mortality rate, an adequate diet and no serious diseases. While a hidden genetic or biological factor may be responsible, Heider prefers to believe the Dani "low-energy system" is simply cultural. If so, Western theories about the innate power of the sexual drive-mostly derived from Freud-may need some adjustment...
Then along came Freud. The concept of "will" went out as the concept of "libido" came in. Where does this switch leave the poor 20th century chap with 19th century memories who cannot decide whether he is stoutly at the helm-or down in the brig, manacled to a rusty old neurosis...
...women. The marquees of the porn theaters to the north are alight with titles like China Lust and Headmaster: There's Pleasure in Pain. Men at once jaunty and furtive are handing out leaflets advertising massage parlors. One spiel: "Check it out! Don't let Freud tell you what to do with it." At a recent briefing, some of the city's hosts for the convention were asked by New York officials "to do everything you can to prevent the delegates from getting mugged, so they take away a good impression of the city...