Word: libido
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Dates: during 1991-1991
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Monarchs minister to the psyche as well as the polity; they give a focus for a country's collective libido. Americans don't need kings to stir our souls because we have attached our deepest feelings to the myths and documents of our founding: Paul Revere's ride and George Washington at Valley Forge; the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Democracies that lack such myths can be emotionally naked. A constitutional monarch supplies the mythic dimension in a convenient package. Winston Churchill, who was both a partisan pol and an ardent monarchist, believed that if defeated Germany...
...city was seen as the mill of oppression, grinding women down into whoredom and men into anonymity. German artists like George Grosz, Karl Hubbuch and the remarkable and still underknown Hannah Hoch imagined it as a grotesque theater, full of libido and irony -- the stage of a morality play, updated to reflect the postwar sense of despair. From Grosz in Berlin to Frans Masereel in Antwerp, an enormous iconography of city life -- its edginess, speed, compression, perversion, fixation on style -- developed in the '20s. The idea that the city is constructed of signs, of media and information overload as much...
...huge i-dot comma over 'stine' gives us the assurance that his libido is full in enfolding his psychic and physical forces...
...Pentagon is worried about all the pent-up, hell-raising energy among soldiers who have been stationed in the gulf for the past seven months. < Demobilized troops, before they once again encounter freely available sex and alcohol, will be put through a moral vaccination program that has been dubbed "libido re-entry." Forces leaving the area will be bombarded with a series of public-health messages emphasizing safe sex and responsible drinking habits. In Oceanside, Calif., near the Camp Pendleton Marine base, authorities will advise returning grunts about how they can avoid street scams. "We expect that every hooker...