Word: primally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many look back in embarrassment over the tears they shed. But was it unnatural to be touched? Gerard Manley Hopkins once gave voice to that primal emotion...
...might be in order. That seemed a little extreme. What criminal outrage had reduced America's bouncy, breakfast-time kid sister to such a primitive fantasy? A serial child-rapist? An AIDS-carrying seducer infecting half of an upstate county's woebegone girls? No. This was serious. This was primal...
...vibrancy and power of these rhythmic beats create a stirring in the blood which clearly fires up the audience, and Stomp is often described as possessing a "primal" appeal on this level, or in terms of a universal "ritual" of rhythm. Its creators acknowledge that fact, adding that the show is influenced by a variety of different cultural incarnations of rhythm--ranging from Japanese and African drumming traditions to American tap dance--but that the language of rhythm seems to be universal...
...witty manifesto, Herz correlates each major genre of electronic game with an age-old impulse: shoot-'em-ups like Doom tap the primal instinct for survival, while puzzle games like Tetris satisfy the need for order, control and reason. The games' larger-than-life superheroes are interpreted as contemporary reincarnations of mythological figures like Zeus and Prometheus...
...Primal Scream, the midnight steak across the Yard that consecrates exams and ends reading period each year, began as a Radcliffe tradition that migrated from the Quad to the Yard as the College began to hold joint classes after World War II. Prior to that, Young says, Harvard men observed the pagan ritual from a distance...