Word: instinctiveness
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Having worked for the past ten years with parents who maltreat their children, I find it refreshing to hear another voice denounce the great lie, "maternal instinct" [July 28]. Unfortunately, our society has convinced too many young women that their only reality is motherhood, and that there is some mysterious instinct that will show them how to be good parents...
...professor of philosophy, Elisabeth Badinter's logic is appalling. The fact that the women she studied displayed no maternal instinct does not in any way imply that the instinct is a myth. It just as easily, and more believably, implies that the women in that subgroup were subjected to social pressures that overrode their maternal instinct...
...between man and woman. No one dares trust a wife or a child or a friend any longer. But in the future there will be no wives and no friends. Children will be taken from their mothers at birth, as one takes eggs from a hen. The sex instinct will be eradicated. Procreation will be an annual formality like the renewal of a ration card. We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. There will be no loyalty, except loyalty toward the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There...
...green at Kansas City that not until the end of the week did she learn that her own delegation had a hospitality suite. She had other things to worry about: her instinct that Reagan was sure to lose. "I just couldn't tell my people," she recalls. "We had worked so hard and fought so hard, and their spirits were...
...picture." It is an action movie whose subject is machines, and the sophisticated killing ma chine man could become. The hardware is the star here: the souped-up Chevies and demon motorcycles, captured by Miller's supple, fender-level camera - one machine in sync with another. With his instinct and craft, Miller has provided more autosuggestive violence on a $1 million budget than The Blues Brothers did with half the Chicago police force and $30 million...