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...received in recent weeks relate to the relentless commercialization of The Crimson, Harvard, and the world in general. Of course, I'm referring to The Crimson's alliance with Mountain Dew. Many Crimson readers were annoyed and disturbed by the advertisement that read, "The Harvard Crimson presents The Primal Scream," featuring Mountain Dew's slogan, "Do the scream, do the dew." One reader correctly pointed out that The Primal Scream will happen (and has always happened) without the input or sponsorship of The Crimson or of soft drink manufacturers...
Many look back in embarrassment over the tears they shed. But was it unnatural to be touched? Gerard Manley Hopkins once gave voice to that primal emotion...
...might be in order. That seemed a little extreme. What criminal outrage had reduced America's bouncy, breakfast-time kid sister to such a primitive fantasy? A serial child-rapist? An AIDS-carrying seducer infecting half of an upstate county's woebegone girls? No. This was serious. This was primal...
...vibrancy and power of these rhythmic beats create a stirring in the blood which clearly fires up the audience, and Stomp is often described as possessing a "primal" appeal on this level, or in terms of a universal "ritual" of rhythm. Its creators acknowledge that fact, adding that the show is influenced by a variety of different cultural incarnations of rhythm--ranging from Japanese and African drumming traditions to American tap dance--but that the language of rhythm seems to be universal...
...witty manifesto, Herz correlates each major genre of electronic game with an age-old impulse: shoot-'em-ups like Doom tap the primal instinct for survival, while puzzle games like Tetris satisfy the need for order, control and reason. The games' larger-than-life superheroes are interpreted as contemporary reincarnations of mythological figures like Zeus and Prometheus...