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...Seventh Seal (AB Svensk Film-industri; Janus). Ingmar Bergman, the 40-year-old Swede who wrote and directed this powerful and peculiar picture, is the son of a well-known Swedish clergyman, and he says that the film was inspired by childhood memories of "the strange vegetation of medieval paintings and carved figures on ceilings and walls" in churches where his father preached. Working with several of the common themes of medieval art (the Black Plague, the Wise Fool, the Night Journey, Death Sawing at the Tree of Life, the Game of Chess with Death), Moviemaker Bergman has attempted...
...Janus, a four-passenger, one-cylinder, 14-h.p. car from the Zündapp motorcycle factory. Both front and back of the car open; the passengers sit back to back, with the motor under and between them...
...Gaza Strip controversy constitutes an example of the problem that is causing many U.S. officials to lose faith in the U.N. I agree with Senator Knowland that a double standard on international policy may make the U.S. and the U.N. look as two-faced as the mythological Janus, but the U.N. should adopt some kind of "speak loudly and carry a big stick" policy with some of these countries which are causing it to lose prestige in the world, and which may eventually cause it to meet the same unfortunate termination which the old League of Nations...
...Janus, the latest laff riot that Broadway has farmed out to the provinces, is making an unsteady last stand at the Plymouth before it is consigned to the back pages of high school drama catalogs...
...Janus is a more or less tolerable evening of inane froth...