Word: primal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Haskell, a well-known feminist, comes to appreciate the instincts that link women "with their inborn sense of suffering," which takes her beyond simplistic movement ideology. "Envy and all the harsh judgments . . . are suspended as we return to some primal bond, where nurturing preceded rivalry." But as comforting as the bonds forged in the intensive-care unit are, she doubts they can last. "Friendships should begin slowly . . . If the opening chords are the life and death notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, there's no place to go from there...
...cycle in all of his offices. When he comes in, he is underestimated -- too young, too inexperienced -- and then he surpasses people's expectations." In other words, Quayle first gets the job and then gets qualified for it. But for a politician, getting the job is the primal qualification. How did he succeed at that? The only answer his critics have been able to come up with is a false one -- family influence...
...Madagascar is home to a stunning array of animal, plant and fish species, most found nowhere else in the world. Under intense pressure from a burgeoning population, the island is already largely deforested. But conservationists and government officials, making personal visits to more than 100 villages surrounding the Ranomafana primal rain forest, have taught indigenous people about the region's genetic diversity and shown them ways to survive without plundering the forest. Ranomafana is soon to be named a national park...
...made-up leaf or an ornithologically unidentifiable bird in Church's South American paintings; though they were all done back in his New York studio; every hair on the tiny llamas looks right. Yet those who thought Church's paintings of Cotopaxi were faithful to the primal scene of nature were wrong. They were more than faithful; they were, so to speak, ecstatic. Nobody could call the view of Cotopaxi dull, but when Church saw it in 1853, it completely lacked the palms, writhing creepers, streams and waterfalls he would later give it. "The big mountain," he wrote...
...Kundalini, or sexual energy, as primal energy for motivation and action...