Word: primal
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...story of all things living, from the first unbelievable creature in the primal ooze to modern civilization conquering air, ice and the depths of the ocean...
Says Poet Masters: "Abraham Lincoln destroyed the American system. He was the ruin of its character and its primal hope. The Lincoln myth must cease...
...pretty, tinted dancing never flourished, she has built up a successful school in Dresden, inspired hundreds of imitators, won thousands of converts. Wigman interviews last week were in the vein of "I love life!" and "I am lying on the earth and am one with the elemental things, the primal things. It is as though my body were filled with life. My body sings and I listen and I try to translate that music into movement." Wigman audiences received her with shouts of ecstasy, apparently found deep, abstract meaning in her lunging, prancing, posturing and whirling, did not mind...
Went down to the primal pit; They sat on the edge and nobbled there Over the pristine...
...Poetry." The classical tradition, he said, that descended from Greece was the true poetic inspiration, and all great poetry since early times had been under direct influence, and owed its greatness to the amount of its faithfulness to the tenets of that tradition, which were ecstatic adoration of primal beauty, not for the beauty itself, but for the appreciation of the transcendent spirit behind it, the spirit that has been felt by all generations of poets, and which is itself the fountain spring of all poetry...