Word: instinctiveness
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...central theme was aggression. With this the orthodox analysts had difficulty coming to grips, as had the master himself long ago. Freud at first identified aggression with sadism and therefore related it to sexuality. In the 1920s he revised his views and accorded aggression the status of a separate instinct. He also related it to his theory of a death instinct. Five eminent analysts had been invited to make major presentations on aggression at a plenary session, and most of their long discussion was devoted to what critics of psychoanalysis condemn as abstruse theorizing...
Americans have sometimes cherished a blunt directness in their politicians. But that particular "give-'em-hell" charm, as Spiro Agnew has never discovered, demands, besides truculence, an implicit instinct for the underdog. It is the charm of the anti-bully...
...Consumer Holds Tight The odds are growing against a consumer buying spree, which President Nixon had hoped would spur the nation's dawdling economy. Despite some tantalizing flashes of free-spending ebullience, the public's mood remains generally cautious, its purchasing habits basically frugal and its saving instinct surprisingly strong...
...them as a fund-raising device. The White House Historical Association, for example, has offered members a series depicting U.S. First Ladies, and the U.S. Olympic Committee sold one celebrating sports events including the 1972 Olympics in Munich. Franklin's founder is still slightly mystified at the collector instinct that his operation has uncapped. Says he: "Some retired people wait for the new medal each month and call the neighbors in to see it. Some businessmen get an issue and put it away without a second glance. Many people collect because it makes them feel like an expert...
...some ways, a White House wedding reflects the style of a presidency. Luci Johnson was married in the largest Roman Catholic church in the Western Hemisphere?in a ceremony to which, as Comedienne Edie Adams said, "only the immediate country was invited." Tricia's wedding will obey a Nixonian instinct for the via media. It will be neither the largest nor smallest: a simple spectacular...