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...which was printed last February, has in it almost all the protests levelled against the arts at Harvard. I've heard them every day for the last four years, spoken either by friends, strangers, or myself. These pro are a constant presence. They fill the air, either as a torment, an annoyance, or high praise, depending on the season and one's mood. Now, on the eve of my leaving, the question arises: what is it all about? What specifically is the raison d'etre of the advocate? Do its premises differ from those of this letter? What...
Bergman has come a long way from Torment, his first film, in which he handled an adolescent's agony with human feeling, but occasional cliches. Unfortunately, he has also come far from the skill and insight of Wild Strawberries. The bizarre has become the sententious and powerful has become the senseless. I am told that he has called Through a Glass Darkly his "Opus One", and relegated his earlier efforts to the status of preludes...
Dean Monro, a member of the Committee, said there was a "conflict of two righteous principles." Such a situation "creates the very difficult decisions that torment good people...
While this miracle is duly passed by Director Tyrone Guthrie in tumultuous blood-spattered surges of on-and off-stage violence, a far more significant encounter takes place. Gideon walks and talks with God in all the glory and torment of the ancient Hebrew prophets. The Lord is wrathful and jealous; yet his fatherly love is ever close. Gideon is skeptical and petulant; yet at times he almost swoons in an ecstasy of faith...
...love him. even a little? "No." Suddenly he begins to understand that, on the contrary, it is he who loves her; that for the first time in life or death he is in love. In dignity and silence he descends again into hell, he returns to a torment infinitely more terrible because now, with a heart awakened by love, he can truly feel the meaningless enormity of his eternal lust...