Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ELVIRA MADIGAN. This elegiac pastorale, directed by Sweden's Bo Widerberg, based on the true story of a cavalry officer's hopeless love affair with a circus tightrope walker, is spare and elegant, with great sensitivity of texture, color and light...
Wald, 60, will share the $62,000 Medicine and Physiology prize with Haldan K. Hartline of New York's Rockefeller Institute and Ragnar Granit of Sweden, who have both concentrated on electrical aspects of vision...
...CHIMNEYS, by Nelly Sachs. The 75-year-old Nelly Sachs, who lives in Sweden, writes in German and was rescued from almost total obscurity by 1966's Nobel Prize, appears as a powerful singer of the fate of the Jewish people...
...question is whether limited legislation is any solution. In fact, the new laws merely codify what hospitals are already doing. They do embolden doctors, but in practice they may prove more restrictive-and even increase illegal abortions. So it seems in Sweden, which in 1938 enacted a law almost exactly like Colorado's. Far from being an abortion mecca (foreigners are rarely accepted), Sweden puts women through a multilayered screening that creates excruciating delays; 56% of Stockholm-area legal abortions occur after the 16th week of pregnancy. Bureaucratic paper shuffling often holds up legal operations until the 24th week...
Chain of Enigma. In flight from Nazi Germany, she went to Sweden in 1940 through the combined efforts of a member of the Swedish royal family and famed Novelist Selma Lagerlöf, herself a Nobel winner. At 48, the refugee brought with her only an aged mother and the numbness induced by terror. Physically, she was so small that she was at first billeted in a children's home. The daughter of an inventor and industrialist, she had written some poems that were totally commonplace and mostly unpublished. Now, galvanized by the experience of her people, she began...