Word: primal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There always has been. The daughter of a primal-scream therapist who became a lawyer and a fashion model and real estate agent who raised four kids, Ricci was a devoted reader of C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia. She has conflicting memories of her young self. "I was the good child," she says, "always well behaved. Even if I wanted to kill someone." She also says, "I was an evil child--well, misguided. I just felt school was never going to end, that there was a weird smell in the classroom I was going to have to smell...
...needed a famous band to bring hordes of students out of their dorms. Nor was it necessary to hand out free alcohol or to haul in giant inflatable office supplies. Just hours before exams, hundreds of undergraduates defied every Harvard stereo-type, converging on the Yard for the Primal Scream. There is no longer any secret about how to attract a crowd. As we can see, it's all about naked people...
...spend their Crimson Cash...naked. Those graduating seniors headed for consulting would also do well to bring this principle with them. What could be a better way to boost office morale? Unfortunately, these things will never happen. And because they never will, we are forced to be nostalgic about Primal Scream...
...friends for future years are waiting in the wings. The only thing that seniors are really leaving behind, irredeemably and permanently, is college. And since we as students have not really had the typical American college experience--with all its debauchery, revelry, and yes, nudity--streaking at Primal Scream is just about the only thing we can miss...
Whether we are among the streakers or the streaked-by at Primal Scream, it remains one of the few collective events we have at Harvard that is clearly part of a college experience, only in that it is something that can only happen while we are here and while we are young. In a desperate wish to cure the student population of our collective fear of how quickly our years here are passing by, I encourage those of you graduating and entering into the world of work to change that. Start Primal Screams in your offices and law firms...