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Scandinavian tourists troop off the ferry with light portable ladders to prop against the high stone wall. Sheep Island is a long way from Stockholm, the wind is bitter, and the wall is high. But to them the object is worth the search-a glimpse of Bergman and what Swedes...
Those who lived through the late '30s retain a particular fondness for the books that he wrote then. But the generation of the '60s knows Steinbeck's works less readily as the celebrations of the land and the common folk that his contemporaries once found them. Perhaps...
Rivals in Pleasure. That Gilles should remind Chastel of Bottom is no surprise, for both play essentially the same comic role. In the commedia dell' arte farces so popular in Watteau's day, Gilles, or Pierrot, was the simple-wilted country bumpkin, often a servant who pointed out...
TOM PAXTON: MORNING AGAIN (Elektra). This is folk without folksiness. Paxton's trimmings may sometimes be countrified or traditional, but in this, his fourth LP, his essence emerges as urban and contemporary. When he writes a talking blues, it is about pot-smoking platoons in Viet Nam who smell...
Some McCarthy dropouts strike a wistful note. Says Nobel Prizewinning Biochemist Arthur Kornberg of Stan ford, who had never worked in politics before the McCarthy campaign: "I thought I could make some contribution, but it is very disappointing to have the business-as-usual people tak ing over." McCarthy'...