Word: tensions
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This idea that modern society is dangerously asocial would surprise Freud. In Civilization and Its Discontents, he lamented the tension between crude animal impulses and the dictates of society. Society, he said, tells us to cooperate with one another, indeed, even to "love thy neighbor as thyself"; yet by our nature, we are tempted to exploit our neighbor, "to humiliate him, to cause him pain, to torture and to kill him. Homo homini lupus [Man is a wolf to man]." The Unabomber, too, in his mode aas armchair psychologist, celebrates our "WILD nature" and complains that in modern society...
...free markets. Capitalism not only spews out cars, TVs and other antisocial technologies; it also sorts people into little vocational boxes and scatters the boxes far and wide. Economic opportunity is what drew farm boys into cities, and it has been fragmenting families ever since. There is thus a tension within conservative ideology between laissez-faire economics and family values, as various people have noted. (The Unabomber complains that conservatives "whine about the decay of traditional values," yet "enthusiastically support technological progress and economic growth...
...Democratic congressional candidates who toe Perot's line. Meanwhile, most U.W.S.A. chapters are not up to the Herculean task of fund-raising and recruiting efforts that would be necessary to field their own slates everywhere. In fact, the organization has suffered periodically from internal feuds within states and from tension between local activists and national headquarters in Dallas. Perot feared that a full-blown crusade would provoke more rivalries in the ranks and attract some eccentrics as would-be candidates...
...liked the ring of the word," and Aquarius from Egyptian mythology. Otherwise, the review was well written, and should bring throngs to movie theaters to witness what happened 25 years ago. I hope most of the seats are filled by those who were too young to experience firsthand the tension of that stressful week in 1970. BLAIR LEATHERWOOD Sacramento, California AOL: BlairLwood...
Indeed, Cambridge was named the "bike-theft capital of the country" in 1994. The Square was hit with a rash of robberies earlier in the spring. And in March, a high-tension noontime shootout in the heart of the Square brought national attention to Cambridge...