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Averell and Gerety also challenged the other candidates to join them in a "Primal Scream" naked lap around Harvard Yard tonight at midnight to kick off the voting...
...When he undertook primal scream therapy under Dr. Arthur Janov in 1970, Lennon instinctively took painful revelations and turned them into cathartic art. Lennon had been abandoned by his father before birth, and then again when he was 5. His mother gave him up to be raised by her sister. Lennon lost his mother again when he was 18, when she was run over by a drunken policeman. Twelve years later, Lennon philosophized it simply and heartbreakingly. "Mother... you had me - but I never had you. I needed you - but you didn't need...
...song's stunning coda, Lennon set to music a repeated plea that was primal and universal. "Mama don't go... Daddy come home." His howls of anguish - unheard-of in popular music - were truth at 33 revolutions per minute...
...naked boy stands at the edge of the woods, butt twisted toward the camera. The weeds in the foreground are excruciatingly in-focus. The title is "Marble Faun," evoking Hawthorne's primal America. The photographer is Fred Holland Day, a forgotten Bostonian who was famous in his time...
Averell and Gerety met when they found themselves running next to each other during Primal Scream as first-year students, each with his own cheering squad...