Word: maj
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Operating on an almost mythic basis, Bergman uses boatrides and water to represent fertility in its many aspects. In the first vignette, Rakel (Anita Bjork) makes love to Kaj (Jarl Kulle) in a boathouse after a swim; Marta (Maj-Britt Nilsson) and her Bohemian seducer Martin (Birger Malmsten) spend a good part of their Parisian romance rowing in the country; and, finally, the younger sister elopes with her boyfriend in a motorboat...
Holmes' accusations are vigorously denied by Maj. Remo G. Gandin at the Massachusetts Selective Service headquarters. "We defer people because its going to be a hardship on them. ...When we can't use everyone in the country, we can and should be selective. ...We take the best qualified and the ones who will cause the least trouble to the armed forces while they...
...Maj. Gandin counters, "I don't think that because a man has a low IQ he'll make a better truck driver." He rejected the contention that the talents of high-IQ men might be better employed than in driving trucks. Since the tightening of mental requirements, he added, the Army has had less "trouble" with...
...probably true that many 4-F's could be inducted for limited duty, without any "trouble." At the same time, it is obviously dangerous to think of the army as a dumping ground for the mentally, morally, and physically unfit. Finally, as Maj. Gandin noted, why should the Army take men who are only half-qualified, when with no more trouble it can draft fully-qualified...
...second episode is a sober bit of flashbackery-an unmarried girl (Maj-Britt Nilsson) recalls, between labor pains, the lowlife who led her wrong. She remembers brooding in her room, when a note slid in over the sill: Will you open your door a little? She did, a little, and sat on the floor beside it. A glass of wine was pushed through the crack. She accepted it, and soon a small and very silly sculpture appeared in its place. She cradled the carving, and her reticent suitor started a Bergman serenade: "Just now my love is without end; Eternal...