Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Marriage begins airily enough. Wedded for ten years, Johan (Erland Josephson) and Marianne (Liv Ullmann) have been selected by some national publication as a kind of "ideal couple" for a feature story on successful marriages. The superficially earnest lady interviewer asks the usual questions, some of them posed as answers. Johan is 42 and a behavioral scientist. Marianne is 32 and a divorce lawyer. They have a lovely home, two lovely daughters, lovely meshing temperaments. Fill in all the blanks with lovely...
Celebrating at a dinner party with another ideal couple, their friends Katerina (Bibi Andersson) and Peter (Jan Malmsjo), Johan and Marianne have to face something rather unlovely. Beginning with taunting asides and barbed revelations (sexual and otherwise), Katerina and Peter erupt into one of those verbal cockfights designed to draw the other spouse's blood in front of mixed company. Johan and Marianne are embarrassed to silence, but what has really been stilled and wounded is their purring complacency in their own bliss...
...some couples, two seems to be the ideal number. Timothy and Kathryn Ligosky of Oakland, Calif., have two youngsters, Jason, 6, and Joslyn, 5, and do not plan to have any more; Tim, 31, has had a vasectomy. They feel that more children would severely limit the freedom they have already used to give up their jobs in the Detroit area and move to California to pursue artistic careers. James and DeAnn Burrows of Cambridge, Mass., have a nine-month-old daughter, Monica, and are not sure they will have any more. The reason: both enjoy their jobs and such...
...generation of administrators do not seem to understand several fundamental principles of alumni relations: that alumni see the key to Harvard's greatness as its ability to change and adapt with progress, that they usually defer to those in power, and that their faithfulness to an institution and an ideal cannot be severely altered by any but the most cataclysmic changes...
...that "less depressing" era that General Education, inspired by the ideal of a well-rounded education, began. Pipkin says the old ideal may not mean anything any more, but he isn't sure what should replace it. "But I know," he says, "that you can't do it with requirements and rules; you have to do it with attitudes. Harvard's got so damn many rules now that it doesn't know what to do, right...