Word: primal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Maryland's uncompromisingly traditional St. John's College after only one semester. His resignation letter was a deeply felt blast: "The intellectual life for me can be nothing more than a game, because if I let it become my whole life, then I destroy some of the primal impulses within me: my creative urge, my animal emotions, my spontaneity, my chaos that I treasure just as much as my unity that I seek...
These are the words of Charlie Whitman, hippie lawyer from Lawrence, Kans., a 27-year-old veteran of the counterculture who has seen it all. What Whitman sees happening in Lawrence is going on all over America: the counterculture losing its primal energy, which was, back in 1967, a beautiful, frightening thing to feel...
...there alone, in the midst of unaccountable pain he finally understands that he is a part of Consciousness III. Committed to that category, he accepts the invitation of some old school friends and moves to an abandoned ski resort in Vermont-where Innis ends the novel with a primal scream, at once cathartic and empty...
...apparently trying to relive all the hurts of the past in order to clear them from his mind. The Rollins Stone interview may thus be regarded as a kind of public therapy. But especially in Part 2?out this week?a rather whiny self-portrait emerges. In a primal scream, Lennon complains that nobody recognized his greatness during pre-Beatle school days in Liverpool. "I used to say to me auntie, 'You throw my f?in' poetry out and you'll regret it when I'm famous.' " Auntie threw it out anyway. Summing up Brian Epstein, the discoverer...
...form of Utopia, maintains British Psychoanalyst R.D. Laing (see BEHAVIOR). The schizophrenic makes a journey into self, says Laing, that is every bit as awesome as exploring a jungle or climbing Mount Everest. He goes "back and through and beyond into the experience of all mankind, of the primal man, of Adam and perhaps even further into the beings of animals, vegetables and minerals...