Word: libido
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...Libido, the technical name for sexual desire, is not triggered by the glands, but by the brain. So Neurologists John Mills Brookhart and Frederick Lemuel Dey of Northwestern University told the American Physiological Society in Chicago last week...
...Walk Alone (by Max Catto, produced by Ben A. Boyar) is the latest of the many dramas of British rural horror. The servant girl on an English gentleman's farm has dark compulsions to play the chapel organ in the middle of the night. The music stirs her libido and she thereupon lures young men out on the moors. There, after presumable orgies, her conscience apparently asserts itself. She murders her partners and, it would seem, commits on them certain unmentionable excess damages-the play isn't very clear about...
...burlesque star's real life the one thing you cannot learn about at the Old Howard Athencaum. Moreover, Ann kept consternation at a high pitch by giving a lesson in the fundamentals--o-h-h gentlemen!--of her own style of winning friends and influencing people's libido...
Reports of his heart affairs were fabulous. Mickey Rooney had lived backstage from the time he was two months old, and his approach to tabooed topics was decidedly more worldly and realistic than that of the average boy of his age. He discussed the first stirrings of his young libido with a candor that amazed even the publicity boys. Soon one of the most popular of Hollywood indoor sports was to uncork Mickey Rooney, let him spill his thoughts on forbidden subjects. Wild, baseless rumors began to be gaily whispered around that made Master Mickey look like Hollywood...
...only from his constantly anguished experience but from a whole raft of undigested philosophy, anthropology, occultism. The fashionable gibber of Madame Blavatsky from Tibet, the yoga writings of one Pryse ("All I say is Om," said Lawrence), the Bergsonian view that all was flux, the Freudian unconscious, the Jungian libido, many studies of primitive culture were all skimmed by Lawrence for his private religion. By the time he got to Susan, says Scholar Tindall with no particular depth, deep called to deep...