Word: primordiale
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It was also in 1969, whether at the command of his mother's genes, a primordial need to match his father, or a simple, old-fashioned lust for power, that Brown switched from backroom strategy to running his own campaign.
Whatever else James Michener may be guilty of, no one has ever accused him of thinking small. Practically entire forests have been felled to produce such trunk-sized novels as Hawaii and The Source. In Centennial, Michener begins with the first faint primordial stirrings on the face of the deep...
The pop cosmologist Erich von Däniken conjures up primordial heroes from the plain of Nazca and the temples of Palenque ?extraterrestrial astronauts who strayed to this planet long ago and then vanished. Today heroes and leaders bred on the earth seem almost as scarce. "There is a very...
* Some modern Christian theologians and biblical scholars are less literal about the cause of death in the world. Any "immortality" of primordial man was a divine gift, explain some, not man's natural condition. Another suggestion is that pre-fall man would have somehow had to end his "biological...
Jean-Jacques Rousseau would have loved it. A 48-hour, 120-man celebration of those most basic, elemental, primordial urges in man that civilization tries to contain or closet: physical violence, alimental satiation, orgiastic intoxication and boisterous, lustful fellowship.