Word: libidos
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...have never seen a more sublime demonstration of the totalitarian mind, a mind which might be likened to a system of gears whose teeth had been filed off at random. Such a snaggle-toothed thought machine, driven by a standard or even by a substandard libido, whirls with the jerky, noisy, gaudy, pointlessness of a cuckoo clock in Hell...
...time when theatrical fashion seems to be running toward staged freak-outs and ad-libido dialogue, the APA Repertory Company chose two drawing-room comedies for the first productions of its 1968-69 Manhattan season. Each of them, moreover, is in verse: T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party and Molière's The Misanthrope. It was a brilliantly offbeat dramatic selection, but there, unfortunately, APA's brilliance ran out. The staging of the Eliot play is so inadequate that it points up weaknesses of the play that were not so apparent in the more religiously...
...love for Johnny, an advertising salesman who has just lost the Xerox account. As the pair bicker and belt each other a la Edward Albee's Virginia Woolf, it soon becomes clear that Wilma is twice the man Johnny is. Long ago, she kicked the living libido...
Those in Peril. Father Renard suggests that the more serious excesses of the mechanized libido be added to Catholicism's list of confessional sins. Among them: speeding, passing without sufficient visibility, driving while intoxicated. In sum, concludes Renard, the Christian must remember that operating an automobile is a human activity that must be "in harmony with our vocation as a spiritual being." To drive home his point, he quotes an auto-age version of the Sermon on the Mount...
Medically, alcohol is a depressant; so is marijuana. Therefore, it often depresses libido. But the offsetting release of inhibitions can make sex more acceptable and enjoyable-although marijuana is no aphrodisiac...