Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Insecure and anxious like most men, theologians (there has never been a woman theologian of note) tend to equate the restless self-concern that results from this state with sin, and to extol the opposite (feminine) qualities of quiet, self-surrendering passivity. Such theologians as Paul Tillich, Reinhold Niebuhr, Sweden's Anders Nygren and Israel's Martin Buber see man as estranged from himself and from God and filled with anxiety because of his estrangement; that anxiety, in their view, results in sins of "pride, will-to-power, exploitation, self-assertiveness, and the treatment of others as objects...
...picture tells two stories at once, playing one against the other for satiric effect. Two women, a middle-aging fashion editor (Eva Dahlbeck) and her young photographers' model (Harriet Andersson), go to Gothenburg, a city in southwest Sweden, on a story assignment. First day in town, the editor puts through a call to a lover she has lost, a pleasant but bored businessman (Ulf Palmer), and persuades him to see, her again. Caught in a mood between renascence and relapse, they make love in her hotel room. Abruptly he decides to go away with her. A knock comes...
Prices & Budgets. Prices have risen sharply, along with Europe's standard of living, are up 5% to 10% this year above 1959. Minimum budget: $10 per person per day, plus round-trip fare. The most expensive countries are Britain, France, Sweden, Switzerland and Belgium...
...London, a Leicester Square theater has been turned into a large restaurant. The Talk of the Town, with a floor show for the entire family and plenty of floor space for dancing (about $6.75 per person). There is little night life in Sweden and Norway, where strip shows are forbidden, but some restaurants stay open until 4 a.m. with bands for dancing. Best jazz is at Vienna's Fatty's Saloon and the Adebar, Rome's Bricktop's on the Via Veneto, and Paris' Caveau de la Huchette. To end the evening, Paris...
...silence." Given Quasimodo's widely unheralded poetic output, it was a natural reaction. In the U.S., where only a few academic specialists knew more than a handful of his poems, the news caused acute embarrassment to cocktail-party literati, who were too stunned to improvise knowledgeable chatter. In Sweden the respected newspaper Aftenbladet criticized the Swedish Academy for "rewarding mediocrity," and most Italian critics agreed. One of Quasimodo's detractors spread the story that he had his poetry published in Sweden for years at his own expense...