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...sister Fanny (Pernilla Allwin) and their parents and grandmother, the Ekdahls, reside. But with a leap of film fancy it becomes the house that Bergman built: an edifice constructed of 40 films in nearly 40 years, and filled with ghosts and demons, strong women and tortured men, knights playing chess with Death, and human souls wrestling themselves to a fine stalemate. In this house the film maker, a great artist with the imagination of a lonely child, keeps spinning spooky fairy tales of the 20th century spirit...
...established traditions which blur the significance of such approval. But to a slew of others. College recognition obtained by petitioning the student faculty College Life committee--can give their endeavors instant credibility, allowing them to poster, use College facilities and seek funding from the Undergraduate Council. It puts the Chess Club on a level with the Rugby Club, and allows brand new literary magazines to publish and distribute door to door, just like the Harvard Advocate, which has produced hundreds of issues and some literary grants since its founding...
Another game-playing club initially boasting 40 members, or about half the size of the Harvard student government, was the Go Club. Not to be confused with a high-schoolesque cheerleading squad, the members actually indulged in a less strenuous activity: Go, a game similar in complexity to chess, originated in China over 4000 years...
...computer. Its keepers have programmed it so that it can replace the humans who are supposed to press the buttons that start World War III. Poor WOPR (for that is its name) is an innocent. It thinks the war games it knows how to play are no different from chess and other harmless entertainments at which it is adept; it cannot distinguish between pawns and people...
Your article on nuclear disarmament [April 18] suggests a morality play the American negotiator is the good guy (the white chess pieces), while the Soviets are represented by the black. But your artist also invokes a more subtle truth. In chess the white player moves first. The U S initially developed and deployed these weapons. It introduced each new advancement and continued to build its arsenal. Having led the world to this impasse, why should Americans expect someone else to take the lead in giving up arms...