Word: seventh
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...that certain tribes in the Upper Volta Republic should remember their "common heritage" with Ghana and join up. To the east, he has used the sprawling Ewe tribe as a basis for suggesting that parts of Togoland, which becomes independent in April, be taken over as Ghana's "seventh province." To the west, where Ivory Coast's Premier Félix Houphouet-Boigny is having trouble with dissident Sanwi tribesmen, Nkrumah said he is "studying the possibilities of regrouping" the Sanwi people on that frontier...
Visions at the Box Office. In the last four years the films of Ingmar Bergman (pronounced Bear ih mahn), almost unknown outside Sweden before 1956, have captured an impressive amount of screen-time in more than a dozen countries. One after another-Smiles of a Summer Night, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Brink of Life, The Magician-they have carried off top prizes at the big film festivals and set the turnstiles twirling on the commercial circuits as no Scandinavian film has done since Garbo was a girl. And last week Stockholm was looking aghast at the latest product...
Along with these vital virtues come pernicious defects. Bergman's work is often pretentious, obscure, and riddled with private references. He has the courage to use clichés, and often they work beautifully-witness the white-faced, black-cloaked figure of Death in The Seventh Seal. But at other times, particularly in his comedies, the clichés are the devices of a back-country Ernst Lubitsch; in A Lesson in Love, the last-minute, sappily symbolic entrance of a small boy dressed as Cupid is pure Kitsch...
...this far-out interpretation is correct, Bergman's pictures suddenly brighten. He makes three comedies (A Lesson in Love, Dreams, Smiles of a Summer Night), in which his first worthwhile women appear and begin to educate their demoralized and dependent men. The education obviously succeeds, for in The Seventh Seal, Bergman's first heroic hero appears: a knight who delays implacable Death long enough to accomplish "one single meaningful action." He preserves the lives of Mia and Jof (Mary and Joseph)" and their infant son, who will one day ''perform the one impossible trick" of making...
Supervisor Howell, 65, a onetime Seventh-day Adventist missionary in South America, assured everyone that his own view was not necessarily the state's. No state teacher was under fire for teaching evolution, though "his own mind should tell him that he is doing wrong in so teaching." But the damage had been done. From the size of the uproar, it appeared that the majority of the people of Washington subscribed to Darwin's theory. Most embarrassed of all: Lloyd J. Andrews, state superintendent of public instruction, who had appointed Howell and who is seeking the Republican nomination...