Word: konrad
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...accumulated knowledge, and to destroy a part would rip the whole fabric. Every discovery or invention of man has this dual aspect"-a potential for both benefit and harm. He warns that it does no good to try to retreat to an earlier century, and he quotes Konrad Lorenz, the famed naturalist and animal behaviorist, who has been warning hostile student audiences that if they tear down knowledge to start afresh, they will backslide 200,000 years. "Watch out!" Lorenz cautions the students. "If you make a clean sweep of things, you won't go back to the Stone...
Prior to the agreement, applications for an exit visa were usually refused or simply ignored. Konrad K., 41, a worker in a Silesian concrete factory, applied twelve times in seven years. Three weeks ago, a plainclothesman knocked on his door and informed him that he must leave Poland by the end of the month. To help pay for his Polish exit visa (about $200 for persons over 16), he sold his antique Polish car for $100. "Some Poles were angry with us and shouted that we should have gotten out earlier," said Heinz H., 60, a telegraph operator...
...wise man of the West, Konrad Adenauer, is dead and forgotten. Forgotten also is his pearl of wisdom: "Only the silliest calf chooses its own butcher...
...introduced the first antiknock fuel (it powered Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis to Europe in 1927). As a Jewish activist, Blaustein played a major role in persuading David Ben-Gurion to accept the U.N. plan to partition Palestine in 1948, and in negotiations with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer for more than $10 billion in reparations to war-crimes victims...
...biological orientation towards violence also challenges sociological theories that classify aggressive behavior in man as instinctual. These theories hold that the interaction of ritualized behavioral drives develops into violence because man has "lost" intraspecies inhibitions. This point of view, formulated by Konrad Lorenz and others, is disputed by Drs. Mark and Ervin. The two argue that the internal brain mechanisms which guide the complex behavioral system of aggression are learned, as evidenced by the fact that directed attack behavior can be stopped "in midcharge." Man is violent only unnaturally...