Word: supermarketeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bring $1,500 less. Space contractors organized an employment service and invited more than 100 organizations-life insurance companies, boat builders, even the CIA-to interview laid-off employees. They found 600 jobs for 2,000 men. One $15,000-a-year engineer wound up packing groceries in a supermarket for $1.65 an hour...
...suburban supermarket in Woodbury Heights, N.J., where Universal was filming They Might Be Giants, a kid came up and offered Actress Joanne Woodward a stick of bubble gum. Joanne popped the wad into her mouth and began blowing bubbles. The wardrobe mistress couldn't have been happier: she salvaged the gooey mess and used it to mend some broken cuff links worn in the next scene...
...farm in New Jersey's Delaware River Valley with his wife, two boys, a couple of aging Siamese cats, and a pet starling named Bronstein, which, Russell claims, imitates creaking doors, balky auto engines and knows how to say, "It's time to go to the supermarket." There Russell studies and writes about nature, trying to draw from its complexity an eternal truth: that no action in life functions without regard to other life...
...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...