Word: konrad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AGGRESSION, by Konrad Lorenz. In this fascinating natural history of violence, a celebrated Austrian naturalist traces the all-too-human passion of aggression to its roots in the lower phyla and finds there an inherent (and hopefully inherited) capacity to transform aggression into love...
...usually done with tact-but originally it took toughness as well. Shortly after he took over in 1964, Barzel called a caucus of the party's 240 deputies and announced that if one more squabble erupted in public, the party could consider his resignation. "Everybody looked at Konrad Adenauer and the other older leaders, waiting for challenge," recalls one deputy. "It did not come. Young Barzel walked out of there the boss...
...therefore, it was only natural for Konrad Adenauer to ask him to prepare a memorandum on whether or not the Christian Democratic Party should continue to emphasize its Christian background. The "High-C Report," which favored the "C" in "C.D.U.," became basic party doctrine and won for its author the Ministry of All-German Affairs in Adenauer's Cabinet...
...good many politicians, in fact, think Barzel has come too far too fast. Last February, when Konrad Adenauer resigned the C.D.U. chairmanship and Erhard showed reluctance to take it, Barzel suddenly announced that he would run for the post. Outraged at what they considered a grab for power, party leaders talked Erhard into taking it in order to keep Barzel out-even though Erhard himself has a well-known dislike for backstage politics. After last week's bombshell, Erhard met with his party presidium in Bonn, heard Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder argue angrily that Barzel's proposals would...
...last six decades have been killed in military action alone, and the hairy thumb of violence has not lost its itch. Can man learn, before it is too late, to control the Cain in his constitution? Only if he understands the brute, says Austria's celebrated Naturalist Konrad Lorenz (King Solomon's Ring, Man Meets Dog). But the brute, he hastens to add, cannot finally be understood in psychiatric terms because man is too small a measure for such things. Aggression is as old as the amoeba, and in the violent process of evolution many species have resolved...