Word: libidos
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...minutes devoted to nothing less than all the causes and early events of the conflict. The pictures of Gallipoli and the Lusitania, young Göring and old Hindenburg were absorbing enough, but the best moments came in unexpected footnotes, such as Sigmund Freud's declaring: "All my libido is given to Austria-Hungary...
Restless Natives. Mostly, they are high-priced professionals-doctors, dentists, lawyers-plus bankers, stockbrokers and real estate agents. An area known variously as "Couch Canyon" and "Libido Lane" houses most of the city's 198 psychiatrists, or approximately one to every 166 residents (compared with the national average of one per 1,100). There is no heavy industry and no effort to attract any. There are 22 banks, nine hotels, the cleanest jail in the county, and a chamber of commerce that couldn't care less. There are 65 acres of parks and playgrounds but no pool hall...
...half-forgotten invention of the late Dr. Wilhelm Reich, one of Sigmund Freud's more brilliant disciples, who in his middle years turned into an almost classic specimen of the mad scientist. The device was supposed to gather, in physical form, that life force which Freud called libido and which Reich called orgone, a coinage derived from "orgasm." The narrow box, simply constructed of wood and lined with sheet metal, offered cures for almost all the ills of civilization and of the body; it was also widely believed to act, for the person sitting inside it, as a powerful...
...sized images of sex. From countless racks and shelves, it pushes the books which a few years ago were considered pornography. From myriad loudspeakers, it broadcasts the words and rhythms of pop-music erotica. And constantly, over the intellectual Muzak, comes the message that sex will save you and libido make you free...
...after its ominous warnings were made public the Humphrey Bogart Festival opened at the Brattle. The report says that by smoking we may die, but Bogart shows in film after film that without smoking, it is impossible to live. While the ego may heed the Surgeon-General, the libido refuses to spurn the Bogart Mystique. The tobacco companies tell us we are misinformed; there is no choice but to round up the usual suspects...