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...Modernity suffers from amnesia. It has been torn from its ontological roots by the "debunking sciences": sociology, psychology, and the behavioral sciences, and cannot remember its origins. Rollo May's "third force," an attempt at remembrance, is, in reality, a reflection of the first force of Western civilization, love and the pursuit of wisdom...
Unlike Pete Seeger, Harvard drop-out with social conscience, Rush, Harvard graduate with Urge for Going, wanted to make it. He didn't want to play in little bars all his life. Like many folk musicians who came out of the folk boom of the sixties, he was torn between the folk art -- which except in times of boom doesn't sell -- and some kind of popular success. He chose the latter, although he did some good singing in the process...
Louis Malle traveled to India with different expectations. After realizing the limitations of his bourgeois concerns with upper-middle-class love affairs, he divorced his wife and left France torn by the political riots of May 1968. Financed by the British Broadcasting Corporation and given a free reign by the Indian government to film whatever he wanted, he made Phantom India, a seven-segment television documentary. As the filming progressed he felt his own perspective becoming more and more insignificant when confronted with the vast panorama of life and death, food and hunger of the India countryside...
...picture is interesting, it's because of Marlon Brando. He is good enough to make us feel emotions we really don't believe. As a 45-year-old man whose wife has committed bloody suicide (for reasons which are not at all explained), he is wrenching as he is torn between sorrow and bitterness, bawling at her corpse and berating her memory. As an experienced middle-aged stallion, he is amusing off-hand with either margarine or masochism, and as a man who had inherited a flophouse (which is also the residence of his dead wife's lover), he covers...
When police arrived at the museum following the theft, blood, skin, and fingerprints were found on the coin display case, and three buttons from the torn shirt were discovered on the floor...