Word: johans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Johan A. Hellebust has become assistant professor of Marine Biology, and Andrew W. Holowinsky has become assistant professor of Biology. Hellebust has studied the compounds formed and excreted by marine algae during photosyntheisis. He holds the B.A. (1958) and Ph.D. (1962) degrees from the University of Toronto. Since 1962 he has been assistant biologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Holowinsky has studied photosynthesis in leaf tissue cultures and the growth of chloroplasts in plant cells. He holds the B.A. (1956) from LaSalle and the Ph.D. (1961) from the University of Pennsylvania. He has been an Instructor since...
...experience is the opposite of. aesthetic, Bergman's talents seem much better after leaving the theatre. Once settled in his favorite coffee shop, the new critic will have fun exploring the film's cornucopian symbolism. Two sisters, Ester (Ingrid Thulin) and Anna (Gunnel Lindbloom), and Anna's little boy, Johan (Jorgen Lindstrom), interrupt their railroad trip in a strange country where a strange language is spoken, because of Ester's strange coughing fits. They rent a room in a hotel with long corridors and no other guests (except for the midgets...
...meantime, young Johan has wandered through and urinated upon these striking corridors. He has lots of fun with the midgets (Refugees From Society) but fails to communicate with the elderly bellhop (The Older Generation). Young Johan doesn't miss a thing, though, watching mommie make love to the stranger. His eyes opening, his ego transferring, he discovers an affection for Ester, but abruptly departs the next day with his mother, leaving auntie dying in a strange land...
...silence is the silence between and within human beings when faith has failed. Pivotal character in the story is the restless, questioning boy Johan (Jorgen Lindstrom), who begins his search on the train by pointing to an unintelligible sign and asking, "What does that mean?" No one can say. Later, as he wanders through an endless maze of hotel corridors, his quest and his confusion seem to be Bergman's own. Johan fleetingly finds comfort in make believe with a troupe of performing dwarfs, then with a kindly old waiter. But always, large-eyed and secretive, he observes...
...final scene on the train, Anna and Johan are homeward-bound, and the boy fingers a letter from his aunt. "Words in a foreign language-" begins...