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...themselves and one another must seem a blast from the past. A blast of musty air, that is, best suited for quaint old art-film houses, where the scent of cappuccino mixes with an aura of intellectual smugness. Titles like The Naked Night, Smiles of a Summer Night, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, The Virgin Spring, Through a Glass Darkly, The Silence, Persona, Cries and Whispers, Autumn Sonata, Fanny and Alexander and After the Rehearsal, which once constituted a summa-cum-laude cinematic honor roll, have since tumbled into Trivial Pursuit territory...
...whether or not they knew his name, moviegoers saw Ingmar Bergman films. His influence was everywhere: in the look and some of the scenes of Monty Python and the Holy Grail (inspired by The Seventh Seal), in the horror film The Last House on the Left (a remake of The Virgin Spring) and any number of Woody Allen films, including Interiors (in the manner of Cries and Whispers). On Broadway, Stephen Sondheim transposed the domestic deceptions of Smiles of a Summer Night into A Little Night Music...
Summers said that, as only the seventh president of Harvard since 1865, he tries to carry on his position’s mandate to confront issues from a long-term, historical perspective...
...fellowship program, currently ending its sixty-seventh term, offers a total of 24 fellows up to 10 months to step out of the newsroom and pursue their intellectual interests via Harvard’s course catalogue. Of these, half are foreign nationals and half are U.S. citizens. The Foundation’s domestic fellows were announce...
...Depew, N.Y., and a member of the state's liberal Working Families Party, to define Lincoln's greatness, he said, "I think his outstanding feature was to make such inroads from a poor family. He knew hardship." But ask conservative Republican Chester Damron, 71, the same question, and the Seventh-Day Adventist minister from Michigan says, "I respect his honesty and integrity. That's the bedrock on which you can build a character and your relationships, with God and with man." James Boatright, a trainman who worked for 43 years along Illinois tracks and even parked in the same...