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...Summer Night is a delightful amoral piece of Sweden which won the Grand Prix at Cannes a few years ago for various good reasons. Perhaps the judges also had never before seen a film in which the eternal games of love and sex were treated with such lighthearted wit, enthusiasm, and candor--and good taste. In fact, I strongly suspect that hardly anyone has ever seen love and sex handled so suavely in real life. Moreover, all four of the film's female leads live up to both Sweden's and Brigitte Bardot's reputations for young womanhood; this...
...director, Ingmar Bergman, handles even details--footmen, puddles, wheatfields--skillfully. He even wields symbols with wit, as in the scene in which the son, an ascetic would-be minister, finally renounces not the world for God but God for the world; the flimsy curtain into which the son is leaning suggests a veil, and the window's shadow on the wall behind him is just enough like a cross...
Golden Cage. The intellectual climate of the Soviet Union is conditioned to make a scientist out of every Russian boy who thinks he has the wit to qualify. Russia already turns out two to three times as many engineers as the U.S., and 59% of its 2,000,000-odd students in higher education are after science degrees. The 17-year-old graduate of the best of Russia's ten-year secondary schools is reckoned to be at least two years ahead of his American counterpart in scientific attainment; he has had ten years of mathematics, six years...
...stood 4½ ft. tall, and had a nose so embarrassingly big that he used to mock his mockers with an even larger one of papier-mache. Smellie, their 28-year-old choice for editor, spieled long Latin poems when drunk, and was celebrated as "a veteran in wit, genius and bawdry...
...range from Disney's Donald Duck to Her block's political satires. Thurber's cartoons lie very close in essence to the "pure cartoon"--the self sufficient line drawing to which words are contingent accidents. These unadulterated pictures resemble poetry in use of paradox and irony, subtle imagery and wit. They live through a juxtaposition of incongruities, an analogous inversion of the natural order of the universe, and dexterous development of symbolism...