Word: libido
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...read with interest "The Morning-After Pill" [May 6], about the new drug ORF-3858. The similar drug diethylstilbestrol, which Yale researchers are finding equally effective, has been used by veterinarians for years to treat mismating in animals. One of the most noted side effects is the increase in libido. This sounds like the beginning of quite a vicious cycle. Anyone for tennis...
Having no curfews may seem to the College Council to be tantamount to free sex, flaunting of the libido, and tramping on the flag. Yet in effect Radcliffe has no curfew now. And no one has offered and justification for retaining all the foolish sign-out boxes and secret envelopes to which Cliffies are subjected. Why doesn't the College just scrap the whole business...
...opens in a hospital ward, where the gauze bandages turbaning every head suggest that the patients all have something wrong up there. In the case of Patient Edwin Spindrift, a Ph.D. and lecturer on linguistics, this seems to be indisputably so. His libido is dead. Ink smells like peppermint to him, hot fat like violets. At the least provocation, Spindrift takes off on obsessive journeys to the roots of words. "What's the difference between 'gay' and 'melancholy'?" asks the doctor. "One is monosyllabic, the other tetrasyllable," Spindrift begins. "One is of French, the other...
...this distorted ambiance, the words that once sheltered Spindrift shelter him no more. To his gathering surprise, the world that exists behind the word is a far more rewarding place. His liberated spirit plunges into the joys of stealing library books, winning a baldheaded contest and resurrecting his libido...
...feels a special sense of community and understanding which makes the act so much more enjoyable." Another student mentioned that he became particularly aware of conflicting drives while he was on LSD, especially the sexual drive. As he described it in Freudian terms: "the id surfaced and discharged its libido...