Word: instinct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Standing firm with his Church, whose Bishops at the Lambeth Conference last August recorded their "strong condemnation of any methods [save abstinence] of birth control from selfishness, luxury or mere convenience" (TIME, Aug. 25), he pointed out that the sexual instinct, used for procreation, is a holy one, but "when misused ... it becomes a carnal instinct. While the respondent believes in this absolute standard of morals, he is sympathetic with human weakness, and knows that it will take humanity a long time to reach that goal...
Maternal Manganese. Dr. McCollum also remarked that the lack of manganese in food "evidently destroys the instinct of maternal affection" among rats...
Unfaithful (Paramount). Ruth Chatterton, who has made a reputation as an actress of heavy dramatic parts, has up to this time kept in control her instinct for staginess and lah-de-dah affectation. In Unfaithful, she takes the lid off. She is the U. S. wife of a frivolous British nobleman. She knows her husband is unfaithful but she cannot divorce him because to do that would let her high-strung brother know that his wife is the peer's mistress. There are possibilities in the idea, in spite of clumsy direction, but whatever possibilities there are Miss Chatterton...
...left two months after the birth of her son George. She left her son, too, although she continued to provide for him. When he was 23 their reconciliation took place in Kansas City, and in recent years she had displayed great pride in grandmothering his daughter Pamela. The patriotic instinct which prompted the choice of Melba, short for Melbourne, for a stage-name persisted all her life. She often harked, back to Australian scenes and sounds, the sudden rise of storms, the bright flash of parrots' wings, the cry of magpies at dawn. Friends say that she knew...
...feet of the guru, a holy man, studied breathing exercises and renunciation of the body, learned new definitions of purity and love. He heard the guru say that the worst enemy is not death, but wrong desire, that wars are "mass-perversions of the sexual instinct," and that discipline is paramount. To this mystery, this wisdom of the East, the Western writer brought a rare and tolerant sympathy and a rarer understanding of his own deficiencies...