Word: iddings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...take ideas seriously. Writes Critic Leslie Fiedler, 48: "Not only do they reject the Socratic adage that the unexamined life is not worth living, since for them precisely the unexamined life is the only one worth enduring at all. But they also abjure the Freudian one: 'Where id was, ego shall be,' since for them the true rallying cry is, 'Let id prevail over ego, impulse over order'-or 'Freud is a fink...
...shoot-out or a moral dilemma. The broad side of barn doors represented the outer limit of marksmanship for most cowpokes, few of whom could afford to by guns or ammunition or target practice. Belle Starr and Calamity Jane looked more like Hoss Cartwright than Miss Kitty. Billy the Id has been described as an "adenoidal idiot." And until about 1890, when smokeless powder came into general use, acrobatic gun battles-with snipers falling off balconies into water trough-were unheard of, because each shot kicked up a cloud of acrid black smoke that soon blinded everybody...
Both the Trans-Alpine and the Central Europe pipelines-Western Europe's largest current pipeline projects -were initiated by Ente Nazionale Id-rocarburi, the government-controlled Italian oil combine that owns refineries and distribution systems worth $1.85 billion on four continents. Despite its aggressive line drives, ENI has been plagued by problems that have delayed completion of many of its projects and dropped its annual earnings from $10 million to $400,000. Financially pressed, ENI last year was forced to accept ten oil companies as partners in the Trans-Alpine Line-ending forever its dream of monopolizing the Alpine...
...with a bicycle racer (Jean-Claude Brialy). Their relationship has obviously been built on the flimsiest of foundations-too many Hollywood double features. One day Angela announces: "I think I'm alive." Suddenly she wants to have a baby, but the bicycle rider does not share her idée fixe...
Yesterday morning, their anger whetted by the suspensions, students continued to man the outlawed tables. Police approached one of the leaders, Jack Weinberg, and asked for his ID card. When he refused, saying it would lead to his suspension, the officers placed him under arrest. Weinberg went limp, and when the university police carried him to a waiting patrol car, hundreds of students sat down on all sides of the vehicle, and prevented it from moving...