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...Summer Night. And just as that earlier, lighter master work 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. Gunner Bjorstrand 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...
...going to get along all right." They did, indeed. As Bridges' political protege. Powell managed the offce of the man who managed New Hampshire. After combat duty in World War II (he was severely wounded in the left arm as a B-24 gunner), Powell returned to Bridges' office...
Bill Madden, Bulldog backcourt man, leads the Yale attack and is rumored to have a deadly outside jump shot. Denny Lynch--not related to the Crimson star--is another top Eli gunner. Defensively, 6-4 Captain John Dowd and guard Bill Polinsky are the stand-outs...
Roberts & Nostradamus. The book is actually a collection of related short stories. The best of them are case histories of shattered men, skillfully underwritten but developing clues with all the suspense of detective fiction, moving toward the revelation of a "forgotten" experience. Under Pentothal, a waist-gunner tells Newman how he survived a B-24 crash in North Africa. In the wreckage he stumbled across the other waist-gunner-headless. As he ran from the burning plane he heard the pilot, his buddy, calling him by name for help. The plane then exploded...
Another patient, a ball-turret gunner, was trapped in the turret after his plane was shot up. Several of his bones were broken. Highly flammable oil began to seep into the turret. The boy screamed until the oil reached his lower lip. When the pilot ditched the plane, the ball turret was knocked off, the gunner somehow survived, but his mind was gone. Receiving these cases back in Ward 7, generally knowing little more about them than their names, ranks and serial numbers, Captain Newman approaches them with godly insight, and somehow Rosten manages to suggest with plausibility that...