Word: primally
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Most Embarrassing Harvard Moment: Two Words: Primal Scream. I didn’t participate, but I’ve never felt so embarrassed...
Claim to Harvard Fame: I ran Primal Scream before everybody else in my class, with an exclamation point painted on my chest...
...equal popularity, and coed scholastic wrestling remains a contentious issue. For the very young--in some wrestling clubs, coed matches start as early as age 6--it's just cublike fun. As children mature, however, many critics find problems with coed contact. The demands of the mat--raw and primal aggression--seem to go against the qualities our culture instills in girls. And for boys, wrestling against girls seems to contravene the lessons they were taught about not hurting girls and keeping their hands to themselves. Texas and Hawaii ban coed matches in high school, so these two states have...
...radio reporter sent to cover the landing of the airship Hindenburg in New Jersey in 1937. Suddenly it goes up in flames. Bodies burn and fall pitiably. "Oh, the humanity!" Everyone has heard the cry, but it is puzzling. It has little logical meaning. It is but the primal expression of anguished fellow feeling for the fate of unknown human forms falling from the sky. At times like that we literally feel the humanity...
...curious double standard between our views on Nazism and Soviet Communism. Harvard’s own beloved “Mathergrad,” in addition to the appearance of the Soviet flag and the playing of the Soviet national anthem at last year’s Primal Scream, is merely the nearest example of the “humorous” usage of Soviet-style artwork...