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...well be that Mather seemed overcrowded because it generally isn't said F. Skiddy von Stade. Jr. '38. Master of Master House. "We're going...
...land is harsh, the people poor and desperate. In the early 1850s a group of Swedes from the province of Smaland pack their few belongings and emigrate to America in hope of a better life. There, Karl Oskar (Max von Sydow) stakes out a fine farm for himself, his wife (Liv Ullman) and family in the Minnesota woods...
There is a distant quality about The Emigrants, a kind of intangible emotional reserve. The cast is superb; there are surely no better film actors in the world than Von Sydow and Ullman. But the director cannot make us feel the desperation and the destinies of his characters. Elia Kazan's America, America was not so elaborate or well sustained as The Emigrants, but Kazan's film had the impact of personal experience. The Emigrants has the accumulation of exquisite detail and close observation; it lacks intensity...
...annual deficit of $1 million. This 50th-anniversary year will be different. In addition to two complete presentations of his two-year-old "Ring" cycle, he will offer a completely new Tosca and a new L'Africaine, as well as the American première of the Von Einem/Dürrenmatt The Visit of the Old Lady...
Peterson, introduced by von Stade as "the man responsible for your presence here," told the freshmen that they were not the finest 1600 students in the country. He explained that Harvard students are selected for reasons other than College Board scores...