Word: libido
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...mass mind is, to Bernays, a subject of perpetual fascination. His uncle, Freud, to whom he had intimate access, stood as Bernays' intellectual ideal, but while the Viennese doctor was interested in releasing the pent-up libido of the individual, his American nephew is engaged in releasing and "engineering" the supressed desires of the crowd. In applying these ideas to American conditions for the first time, Bernays has proven that the public can be "brought to accept" anything from a Presidential personality to a new breakfast food...
...children question her sexuality as they struggle to realize their own in a society which has grossly exaggerated the size of Black libido. And so, Angelou says, the Black mother must offer a strong self to her children that will successfully counter the stereotypes society will offer them...
...marriage to Janice is on again, glumly and apparently for good. They live with her mother and sock away money. Rabbit thinks less and less about his days as a high school basketball star and the B-league scoring record he set in 1951. Even his formidable libido has begun to show signs of acting its age: "Somewhere early in the Carter Administration his interest, that had been pretty faithful, began to wobble and by now there is a real crisis of confidence...
...became the leader of Swaziland the year Warren G. Harding moved into the White House. Last week, on the 60th anniversary of the old Lion's rule-the longest of any living monarch-he was feted by countrymen and visiting dignitaries. Heralded as much for his libido as his longevity, Sobhuza is said to have more than 100 wives and is well on his way to earning another moniker: "Father of His Country." The old Lion has reportedly sired no fewer than 500 children...
...sight of Carole Landis and Victor Mature grunting lustfully through One Million B.C. was enough to satisfy 1940 preteens; the vision of Raquel Welch in One Million Years B.C. engorged many a Saturday-matinee libido 26 years later...