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Added safety Jon Judge, "It brings out the primal instincts...
Compared to Esalen, Primal Screaming and similar trendy behavior therapies, Transcendental Meditation is downright dull, says Associate Editor Gerald Clarke: "You don't shout, you don't take off your clothes, you don't blurt out your sex life to a bunch of strangers." Thus Clarke, who describes himself as "superrational," decided to try it. Last April-long before he knew he would write this week's Behavior story on TM-he invested $125 and four days in TM training. "I can't claim any miracles," says Clarke, "but I write with greater ease...
Albert Ayler founds his approach to jazz on a search for simplicity. His music reaches back into the origins of jazz for its most basic, primal elements. He rejects the modern sophistication of chordal structures to construct a new blues form. Ayler digs deep into the tenor saxophone's gutteral voice to produce a sound that is harsh, unsubtle and unpolished. He plays in a strong, brutal manner; he bends, bashes and torments notes until they express what he desires. Usually building around a simple recognizable theme, Ayler relies on a rawness of emotion unfiltered through traditional structure that seems...
Second-decade rockers were dealing in primal screams in 1967 when Roberta Flack came along with her sweet, sensuous voice, an authentic light among trays of crackerjack sparklers. Flack turned The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (1972) and Killing Me Softly with His Song (1973) into blockbuster hits. She began collecting her four gold singles and two gold albums. By the end of 1973 she had won a pair of Grammy awards. But one day, glancing at a copy of her album First Take, she realized suddenly that "I could not go through life playing First Time Ever...
...revisionist ramble through the received ideas of the past hundred years, which encourages readers to alter their conceptions of the world. Cuddihy's presentation is flawed by excessive zeal. If a Jew utters a word like coarse, he automatically triggers, in Cuddihy's mind, visions of the primal scream. (Though, as Freud once pointed out, sometimes a cigar is only a cigar.) Cuddihy also has a tendency to expand a quirky coincidence into a theory of cultural history...