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...have only two offerings, of which their take-off on "Little Darlin" is much the better. It is so good, in fact, that one wonders if they weren't doing it seriously after all. The Dunces also try some rock 'n' roll parody and have considerable success with "Cool Mover," which they claim was written in honor of Harvard's president...
...C.I.O. and the A.F.L. wanted to merge but remained suspicious of each other's motives, Goldberg drew up a "no-raiding" clause that was agreeable to both sides, then worked out the complex details of the merger itself in 1955. Two years later, he was a prime mover in the expulsion of the Teamsters from the A.F.L.-C.I.O. And in 1959 he was labor's legal strategist during a no-holds-barred Steelworkers' strike that lasted 116 days. When the Government invoked the Taft-Hartley Act to stop the strike for a cooling-off period, Goldberg fought...
Sigmund Freud saw the prime mover of the unconscious as sexual energy or libido; Alfred Adler made it the drive for power to overcome inferiority feelings. In his "analytical psychology," Jung divided the unconscious into two layers. Within one, relatively superficial, he gave libido and the power drive less ambitious roles. In the second and far deeper stratum, he perceived the force of the primeval, collective unconscious of the human race...
...general convenience, and that we shall be able to transport ourselves and families and their goods and chattels more securely by air than by water, and with a velocity of from 20 to 100 miles per hour. To produce this effect it is only necessary to have a first mover which will generate more power to a given time in proportion to its weight than the animal system of muscles...
...France's first families, Gilbert Motier de La Fayette married Adrienne d'Ayen. The bride had barely left the altar when she was forced to begin a lifelong struggle to preserve her marriage to the soldier who became a hero of the American Revolution, a prime mover of the French Revolution, and a roving gallant who collected mistresses like medals...