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...synonymous description of the "primal" urge-"the impingement of polished mahogany upon silver flakes"-was classic...
...these extracts hint, Author Winsor's eagerly awaited new book is about what she calls "primal" relations. Her publishers profess to believe that in The Lovers she has "unearthed the roots of the conflict between the sexes with candor and rare understanding," but this is not quite true. The Lovers has candor, all right, and its understanding is as rare as a steak cut from a live cow, but Author Winsor is not a writer who employs her pen as a grub hoe. What she investigates are not concealed roots but visible furnishings: "His body . . . had the ... apparent hardness...
...untrammeled figures disporting themselves in the world outside, and a scene of dark punishment in Hell. Most critics hold this to be a logical sequence of Creation, worldly pleasure and eternal punishment. Fränger disagrees. He believes that Bosch's naked figures represent not lust but "primal innocence." In his view, the artist was portraying an "Adamite family ... in which unbounded sensual delight and serene chastity hold equal sway...
...What the Flight wants is this: to be primal, original, creative, as God is ... Revolution is used to bring about the original and creative situation. The point of revolutionizing things is not that they may be rendered different, but that they may be returned once again to the beginning. Whatever is primitive is emphasized in culture, in art, in history. Man wants to be present at every beginning, imitating the Creator...
Previously he had spoken of the attributes of the gifted listener. Quoting Santayana, he warned; "though music were the most abstract of arts, it serves the dumbest of emotions." People respond to music from a "primal and almost brutish level," which acts as a reflection of their "physical life of gesture and movement," and of their "inner sub-conscious life...