Word: lessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...widely accepted speculation is that the pressures of survival put a heavy premium on the dawning intelligence of man. The first toolmaker gained an enormous survival advantage over his fellows-and may have asserted it by cornering the local supply of women. This male dominance operated to drive less intellectual males to the periphery of the troop, or tribe; it also served to transmit the toolmaker's genes to the next generation...
...implication for modern society. Evolution indicates that the aggressive instinct tended to preserve order within a tribal structure. But most human aggregates have gone beyond the tribe. And perhaps as an inevitable result, aggression no longer keeps but strains the peace. In man's simpler and less crowded past, aggression was both useful and effective; in man's present, it can lead to such thoroughly unanimal behavior as murder...
Those indefatigable human detergents, the censor and the prude, have utterly failed to launder, much less expunge, man's lowest literary form: the dirty joke. What accounts for its lusty and unabashed survival? Freud suggested that the smutty story verbalizes male aggressive instincts against the highly disturbing opposite sex. Somewhat embellished, this theory lies at the heart of Gershon Legman's Rationale of the Dirty Joke (Grove Press; $15), which beyond all doubt qualifies as the most bizarre book of research in recent years. Legman's study is an 811-page anthology of dirty jokes, complete with...
...article, describes as "the student movement's abdication from reason." Now teaching in Toronto, Feuer observed the 1964 Berkeley rebellion as a member of the faculty there. Deploring "the student movement's attraction to violence, direct action and generational elitism," he is not a bit less shocked by the "moral surrender of the elder generation...
...issue were only money, the strike could probably be settled quickly. The Guild is demanding a minimum salary of $264 a week for experienced newsmen; AP offered $14 less, or $250. A more basic difference is the Guild's insistence that eight out of ten new AP employees must join the union. AP General Manager Wes Gallagher has called the demand "non-negotiable." If the AP "is to maintain its standards of objectivity," he said, "it cannot force its news employees into any organization, including a union...