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Rather melodramatically, Ghosts tells of the "lifeless old ideals, the dead beliefs," which forced Helene Aving to remain married to her wealthy but dissolute husband, whose venereal disease leads to his son's insanity. Since his death, these ideals have seemed to Mrs. Aving increasingly hollow, the sham life she led increasingly meretricious...
...find the answers to Twenty One's difficult questions. Bearer of a distinguished name, Charles Van Doren (TIME cover, Feb. n, 1957) had seemed the finest product of American education, character, family background and native intelligence. Could it be that all or much of that picture had been sham? That was the most disturbing question raised by last week's Washington hearings on the scandal of the television quiz shows...
...illustrating this text, Bergman wobbles between drama and melodrama, alternates genuine horrors with sham tricks, comic sex with serious sex, and poetry with lampoon. Result is that The Magician is perhaps his least successful film so far. But for every murky symbol, there is a sharp physical image: footsteps become important, a thunderclap almost too real, and shafts of light through the mist startlingly beautiful. With the help of this brilliant graphic technique, a haunting guitar score, and the talented stock company of players who have turned up in all recent Bergman films. The Magician manages to fascinate...
...savage modern morality story. Based on a real incident, the stinging fable tells of a blithe young actress who marries an aging, swashbuckling wartime hero, then finds herself brutally snubbed by the petted women of Yugoslavia's bureaucratic clique. In violently purple prose, Djilas lashes at this "sham aristocracy" which, "when not loafing about in their magnificent parvenu offices, moved from place to place, lived in their own select and restricted summer resorts, gathered in their own exclusive theaters and stadium boxes." The point of Djilas' attack is not privilege itself, but privilege in the hands of those...
...role, as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, in undermining the 1957 disarmament talks has not yet been publicized, though there is every indication that he was the man most responsible for turning American policy into an unnegotiable sham. The frauds which he consistently practiced on the American public in the fields of fallout danger and of test detection capabilities have not yet been exposed. While the committee has concentrated on some of his more blatant failures in Executive-Legislative liason, it has left untouched his record as a creature of the Strategic Air Command in the Oppenheimer case...