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Bergman's Opus I is constructed conscientiously as a quartet, a thematic analysis of four lives. The lives are those of a well-known novelist (Gunnar Bjornstrand), his 17-year-old son (Lars Passgard), his married daughter (Harriet Andersson) and her doctor husband (Max von Sydow), all on vacation on an isolated Baltic island. The daughter, who has recently been electroshocked out of schizophrenia, is trying to face the difficult facts of her life: a devoted husband whom she does not love, a selfish father whose love she needs but cannot have, an ego that stands fascinated, like...
Mary found her next husband in a German spa. He was stiff-necked Count Alfred von Waldersee, whose one attraction for Mary was his friendship with Prince Wilhelm, heir to the German throne. In due course, Mary met Wilhelm. She was a svelte 42, he only 21. Noting that his withered left arm made him feel insecure, she put him at ease with a few soulful chats. She earned his gratitude by finding him a submissive little wife, who later bore him eight children. Husband in tow, Mary moved into an elegant house in Berlin overlooking the River Spree. Wilhelm...
...reminded of Freud's (pre-psychoanalytic) enthusiasm about the "exhilaration ... euphoria ... vitality ... self-control," resulting from his use of cocaine, on which he was doing research. He prescribed it to many of his friends for minor and major discomforts, with disastrous results in the case of Ernst von Fleischl, who became addicted. Leary and Alpert are undoubtedly quite well aware of similar potential dangers. It would be as much of a mistake to stifle their research as it would have been to stifle the research on cocaine and related anaesthetics which was prodded by the enthusiasm of Freud and other...
...central theme, it is a study in types of heroism, which are finally indistinguishable from what Mr. Gunn calls "modes of pleasure." On one side stand the byrnied and terrified warriors of the age of Ethelred and such perennial noblemen of the suicidal beau geste as Claus von Stauffenberg. Different only in degree are the tattooed and/or black-jacketed hoods, the "brave, terrible" queers, "fallen from/ The heights of twenty to middle age," such classic, superannuated hustlers as Rastignac, and "a few with historical/names"--Baudelaire, Caravaggio. Within them all persists the sullenness and flabby dignity of Shakespeare's besotted...
...mission in the Congo: Change sides." "To the chief of CIA: You are under instructions to encourage liberation movements in every nation of the world under Communist domination-including the Soviet Union itself." Live Hero. Other speakers had diverse conservative messages. Said New York University's Economist Ludwig Von Mises, 80: "Until a few years ago, I thought freedom was dead on the American campus; now I see that you young men will make us free." Said Indianapolis News Editor M. Stanton Evans, 27: "I say the twist was originated in Washington by the Kennedy Administration...