Word: texts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Svensk; Rank). On the subject of temptation, Martin Luther once said: "You can't prevent the birds flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair." With this for his text, Swedish Director Ingmar (Torment) Bergman*has preached in this picture a sermon on sensuality that the pastor of Wittenberg would scarcely have said amen to. But the Swedes, whose notions about sex have changed since Luther's time, were tickled pink with the picture. So were a lot of European critics...
Surely, Heroes of Shipka is valuable not only as an exercise in the art of film-making, but also as an example of how effective mythmaking can inculcate patriotism by means of an almost Orwellian warping of history. And it is surely more exciting than what the text-books tell us of treaty-making and spheres of influence. Fiction in this case is more persuasive than fact...
...mold of informality, with Ike and Dulles discussing the Paris sessions, but it actually showed the President of the U.S. as master of ceremonies for the Secretary of State's featured role. Ike spoke briefly at the beginning and end of the program, reading from a rough text which he had written out during the afternoon. Said he of the NATO meeting: "There was one basic purpose implicit in every discussion and debate of the conference. That was the pursuit of a just peace. Not once during the week did I hear any slightest hint of saber-rattling...
...Paris scenes, which look as if they had been drawn by a somewhat sozzled Raoul Dufy. Children's books may not read any better than (or as well as) they did in the past, but they look better; the skilled artwork is generally better tied into the text and better printed than it was in the days of great illustrators such as Tenniel, Kate Greenaway, Walter Crane and N. C. Wyeth...
THREE HUNDRED YEARS OF AMERICAN PAINTING, by Alexander Eliot. The rich and varied story of American painting superbly fixed in 250 color reproductions, its development and creators described in text (by TIME's art editor) that is at once informative, informal and critically penetrating...