Word: primally
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...begin with, Times Square is not a square. It's actually more of a triangle, one created over the years by the convergence of Broadway, Seventh Avenue and every primal impulse--sex, power, greed, vanity, ambition--known to man. Or woman. Or, in these days of the sanitized 42nd Street, Mickey Mouse...
Despite these liabilities, though, walking yields real pleasure. There’s something primal about it: the extension of the long muscles of your thighs, the swing of your knee’s hinge, the kick at the apex of your stride, the roll of your foot’s fine, differentiated bones against the pavement. Walking allows you to think: Charles Dickens, I read once, often walked 20 miles a day and would come back brimming with new characters, dialogue and melodrama. And Dickens did it in the days before really comfortable footwear. Too, walking provides a friendly view...
...With Primal Scream long established and H Bomb in the works, Harvard’s campus is getting more naked. This is—generally—a positive trend. Yet Monday’s nude protest in the Pit staged by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) reminded us that just because people are naked doesn’t mean that their cause is worth supporting...
...Maats did more than just protect weak and susceptible Adams. He went far and beyond the normal constraints of interhouse warfare during this year’s Primal Scream, painting himself in yellow and running around Harvard Yard with the Soviet national anthem playing in the background in defiance of Kirkland hostilities, frostbite and public embarrassment...
...word in escape fantasies. Tahiti was the place where he hoped to find a native culture in tune with his most uncivilized impulses and where he could discharge energies, artistic, spiritual and phallic, that bow-tied Europe wanted no part of. Even D.H. Lawrence, that subsequent prophet of the primal against the merely civilized, made a kind of homage to Gauguin in later life, when he bolted for New Mexico...