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What earns respect for Carnegie is its pinpoint giving. In 1924 it called the first U.S. conference on adult education. In the 19305 it got Sweden's Gunnar Myrdal to produce An American Dilemma, the first real study of U.S. Negroes...
...first gear. Today, however, Volvo factories swarm with lynx-eyed inspectors so uncompromising that suppliers are apt to find entire shipments of parts rejected for a minor deviation that many auto companies would let pass. Such rigid adherence to standards comes straight from Volvo's incisive Managing Director Gunnar Engellau, 55, who coldly compels his top executives to reduce their weight whenever they deviate from his specifications for the ideal male figure. Since Engellau took over in 1956, Volvo production has climbed from 36,766 cars to last year's 78,527-and the company now does almost...
Bergman's Opus I is constructed conscientiously as a quartet, a thematic analysis of four lives. The lives are those of a well-known novelist (Gunnar Bjornstrand), his 17-year-old son (Lars Passgard), his married daughter (Harriet Andersson) and her doctor husband (Max von Sydow), all on vacation on an isolated Baltic island. The daughter, who has recently been electroshocked out of schizophrenia, is trying to face the difficult facts of her life: a devoted husband whom she does not love, a selfish father whose love she needs but cannot have, an ego that stands fascinated, like...
Along with this fertile, if predictable, plot Bergman has his usual advantages of his troupe's superb acting and unparalleled camerawork by Gunnar Fischer. The story gives ample room for the irony of inversion, where good and bad are reversed, at which Bergman is so adroit. One wonders, then, how a director could possibly ruin the film...
...third vignette fits awkwardly into the picture's symbolism and shows, too, that Bergman's best comic effort (which this probably is) tends to the lumbering side. Couple trapped in elevators hardly ever are very funny, and this particular twosome (Gunnar Bjornstrand and Eva Dahlbeck) aren't worth even as many laughs as a Berle kinescope...