Word: racer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...away, in human terms, as death seems to us, its inevitability lights a fire beneath the "search" that all of us, in one form or another, have undertaken. We want something to show for our 75. or whatever, years when they are behind us. The Supermarket Racer option has shown its bankruptcy in the pathetic forms of frantic, dawn-to-dusk errand-running P.T.A. mothers and ulcer-ridden financier uncles. The search has brought some of us to Harvard and is beginning to turn many of us away from it. It has fostered acidheads, Weathermen, Krishna- consciousness chanters, junkies...
...TAKE-OFF point for the student of Creative Psychology is liberation from the "illusion of the personal ego." The reason, in other words, that the Supermarket Racers all failed before they started is because they completely misunderstood the meaning of life. They saw themselves as individuated organisms-physically independent from their environment and physically independent of the spiritual miracle of Life-who were simply cancelled out by death. That perspective dooms our Racer to frustration and self-recrimination...
Inevitable as Autumn Here is a melancholy little love story, carefully crafted, that evokes the kind of mood more ambitious projects only hint at. Made in Europe on a slender budget by Screenwriter James Salter (Downhill Racer), Three says more about young love in a single scene than Last Summer, for example, does in its entire running time...