Word: instinctively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...husband Juan (Frank Langella) who is sterile - and doesn't want any babies around the house anyway. An old crone offers her son as an inseminative agent, but Lorca cannot let Yerma commit adultery because he intends the play as a tragic stalemate between honor and instinct. Surrounded by women who take a sensual delight in their fecundity, poor Yerma is reduced to beating her breasts and moaning, "I feel two blows of a hammer here instead of my baby's mouth...
...general, however, there seems little doubt that the Board tends to be more lenient than it is rumored to be. "The instinct now, is not to fire--cases are skillfully and compassionately covered," Monro says. Dean Watson even goes so far as to say that "If I were in trouble, I would put my case in the hands of the Administrative Board with confidence." But in the dining halls one hears a different story--tales of innumerable students who have been kicked out for having a girl in their room a few minutes after parietals ended. Real horror shows...
...spirit of this move undermines what Harvard stands for--free debate is such a natural instinct that any attempt to restrict it unreasonably should be voted down as a matter of course. Handlin should have waited for a debate to begin before he offered his motion. Now, it appears that a majority of Faculty has disregarded the desire of its minority and 1500 students for a discussion--much less a position...
...current crop, Lane's book is essentially a staggering accumulation of minutiae and half-truths based on minutiae. Yale Law Professor Alexander Bickel, himself a critic of the commission, has dismissed Lane's opus as "peripheral and indiscriminate," concluded: "Great trial lawyers, like great detectives, have an instinct for the jugular; Mr. Lane has an instinct for the capillaries...
...other hand, viewed self-destruction as a purely psychological phenomenon with the same essential structure as depression. He held that it is a form of aggression against someone loved turned inward upon the self, because the self is identified with the loved one. Later, Freud formulated his famed "death instinct," into which suicide fitted neatly as death's triumph over the life instinct. Many psychoanalysts do not accept the death instinct, but most modern thinking swings between versions of Freud's psychodynamics of depression on the one hand and Durkheim's sociological factors on the other...