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...fourth and, in Campbell's view, the most important function of mythology, is to guide the individual, stage by stage, through the inevitable psychological crises of a useful life: from the childhood condition of dependency through the traumas of adolescence and the trials of adulthood to, finally, the deathbed...
...toting M-16's have been replaced on the back page of the Panther paper by elderly black grandmothers. No one really regrets their passing. But we must hope that after its clamorous uncertain birth, our movement, far from dead, is slowly growing toward what will be a triumphant adulthood...
...stands in the film for the natural qualities smothered by Hall mores, but to him these are merely the elements of a commonly accessible good life. His tragedy is his inarticulateness, which causes him to lose Leo's trust before he can explain to him the meaning of adulthood...
...passionate: getting there is more important, and more fun, than making it. Drinking in the natural and human wonders that pass their way, Ogden and Erin relish a dream that neither they nor Smith believe could-or should-last too long: a second adolescence enriched by the experience of adulthood...
Summer of '42 is a piece of machine-tooled sentiment about an adolescent's first stirrings of love and initiation into tentative adulthood. There is a standard form for films like this, and Summer of '42 seems to have been the model. It has gauzy, soft-focus photography and saccharin rhapsodies on the sound track. The writing is appropriately wretched and includes such Deathless Words to Live By as "Life is made up of small comings and goings." This wisdom was provided by Herman Raucher, co-scenarist of Anthony Newley's Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget...