Word: spring
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Nasser plainly wanted to follow an aggressively Arab-nationalist line in the Middle East. To do this, he was quite prepared to hot things up against Jordan and to make life miserable for Jordan's Premier Hazza Majali, 40, a sophisticated moderate who, before taking the premiership last spring, privately approached Nasser to assure himself of Cairo's benevolence. Now Majali found himself thunderously denounced by "Voice of the Arabs" as "a notorious old imperialist stooge." Not yet attacking King Hussein by name, Nasser himself charged last week in a Syrian speech that "the Amman rulers have yielded...
...over France, billboards were demanding: "Does baby love Charrier?" Ostensibly, the ads were intended by their sponsor to imply that even infants go for Perrier's bottled mineral water, much of which gushes from a spring near the town of Charrier. Unfortunately, French for baby is bébé, pronounced "B.B.," who, as 45 million Frenchmen know, is Cineminx Brigitte Bardot. In turn, making the coincidence the more monstrous, B.B. is married to highstrung Cinemactor Jacques Charrier. Was Perrier, with gauche humor, hinting of discord in the Charrier family? Brigitte concluded just that, had her lawyers...
...Christ, has supernatural powers, but he listens to rational objections, doubts himself, loses his powers. But in the last reel of the film, after long sufferings in obscurity, the magician is "called at last" to perform in the presence of the King. And in the latest picture, The Virgin Spring, God makes his first miraculous intervention in the world of Ingmar Bergman. On the spot where the beautiful virgin is brutally done to death, a spring bubbles forth from the dry land. And Bergman cries out, with the voice of the girl's father: "Here I will build unto...
Dangers of Happiness. The development described in Bergman's work seems to have been realized in his life. Since the completion of The Virgin Spring, friends have noticed a new mellowness in the man. An intimate who has peeked at his diaries reports that they used to be filled "with a very funny kind of logic in which he could wear many different masks and be a new man for every person he met. They reminded me of Kafka." But recently the note of logical unreality has disappeared, and the diaries are now filled mostly with clearheaded, matter...
Music for a Spring Night (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).* The second program of the new series is called "Pas de Deux," features assorted ballet numbers ranging from a part of Sleeping Beauty to the Japanese Oshichi...