Word: gunnar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seconding Atkins' opinion that the Scandinavian field must be strengthened, Hatfield noted that another Scandinavian, Gunnar Boklund, will take over instruction of Scandinavian 50 and an upperlevel course in Swedish literature...
...some individual willing to sell our birthright for a mess of political pottage on the national level, or the reformers that would make us over according to the mess they have made for themselves, including the board of sociology garbed in judicial robes and dishing out the precedents of Gunnar Myrdal...
...Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist, author........................................ LL.D...
...earlier this year. And just as that earlier, lighter masterwork examined the forms and varieties of eros, so The Seventh Seal probes the modes and species of fides. Every form of Christian faith seems to be present here--what Kierkegaard prayed for and what made Nietzsche gnash his teeth. Gunnar Bjornstrand as the jaded, worldly squire voices a despairing stoic atheism that sounds perhaps too contemporary for the middle of the fourteenth century. Nils Poppe as the peasant Jof, on the other hand, accepts his visions of the Virgin and Child with the same simplicity and sureness as he does...
Ambitiously billed as starring Sweden's four most beautiful women, the film is a rather lengthy erotic comedy. It concerns the diversion of a lusty lawyer, played knowingly by Gunnar Bjornstrand. While he has affairs with an actress and with the wife of his rival for the actress, his maid, who is attracted to him but succeeds only in seducing his son (an erstwhile divinity student), carries on with a groom. The simplicity of these relationships is, however, complicated by the lawyer's virginal wife's elopement with her stepson, who has finally warmed to his work and abandoned...