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Like much of Bergman's canon, Face to Face is about an emotional quest and a spiritual trial. It concerns Dr. Jenny Isaksson, a Swedish psychiatrist who is enduring the same sort of crisis she is trained to cure. Her husband is off in the U.S. at a convention. Her daughter is away at summer camp. Jenny, for company, moves in with her grandparents, who have decorated her room with all the furnishings of her childhood. Instead of reassuring her, the trappings of girlhood seem to hurry Jenny back to a period of intense vulnerability. She is haunted...
...canon of capitalism, a three-network market economy should inspire a better product. Television may explode that assumption. On the evidence so far, quality shows seem to have had a better chance of survival when only two networks were competitive. In the '60s, for example, NBC's Saturday Night at the Movies drew a share in the 40s, but CBS's The Defenders could still pull a strong 30 share. Now winner takes all with three networks in contention. The difference in price between an advertising minute on a top-rated show and its rivals...
...write a book that liberates as fully as it lacerates. But she cares about the national identity as no other living American novelist does. If she can steady her grip on her terrifying, transmogrifying wit, there may yet be a great novel in the already vast Gates canon...
...what is really interesting in The Secular Scripture is the theory of society Frye develops to make the distinction between "myth" (the central canon of a society) and "romance" (stories on the periphery of a society). Again the argument is heady, based on Plato and Christianity's abridgement of the Greek philosopher to form a "hierarchy of verbal structures." In a quick and hopelessly inadequate phrase, this means some types of stories are "in" in a particular society and others are "out." What's accepted at one point may be unaccepted at another, but always the romance, the lowest form...
...language is often the typically bland product of committees. And though the liturgical commission denies any doctrinal shift, the draft softens some of the gloomier theologizing of the Anglican past. "The 1928 version is overloaded with sin and penitence," says Canon Charles Guilbert, 67, custodian of the Standard Book of Common Prayer and secretary of the liturgical commission. "The old Communion didn't really accept forgiveness. We trust God. We trust that if we confess, he will forgive...