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...that would pave the way for suburban homes, spouses, SUV’s and 2.5 children. Now, as many of us prepare to receive our diplomas and leave Fair Harvard behind, we’re finally starting to look back. We remember the trauma of Expos, the voyeurism of Primal Scream and the simple pleasure of late-night conversations about nothing in particular...
...simple phrases until they sound a little like sex and a little like pain. On The Slow Drug, her hush leads into the dead of night as she contemplates a sleeping lover and wonders, "Could you be my calling?" No singer since Janis Joplin has moved as easily between primal scream and intimate sigh...
...never been a simple matter. To a frog snagging a fly or a pelican nabbing a fish, food is fuel and nothing more. To a human, the ritual of eating--the act of pulling up and tucking in, of passing around and helping oneself--is one of the most primal of shared activities. We eat together when we celebrate, and we eat together when we grieve; we eat together when a loved one is preparing to leave, and we eat together when the loved one returns. We solve our problems over the family dinner table, conduct our business over...
...last-ditch effort to reassert its relevance in the face of Harvard’s mental woes, the soon-to-be-defunct Bureau of Study Counsel will recommend that all students begin rigorous regimens of primal scream therapy. The Bureau will be vastly misunderstood...
...infidels. This is not rocket science. It is conventional wisdom among democracy and human-rights activists--and yet the Administration allowed itself to be blinded by righteousness. Why? Because moral pomposity is almost always a camouflage for baser fears and desires. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the neoconservatives share a primal belief in the use of military power to intimidate enemies. If the U.S. didn't strike back "big time," it would be perceived as weak. (Crushing the peripheral Taliban and staying focused on rooting out al-Qaeda cells wasn't "big" enough.) The President may have had some personal motives...