Word: spring
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Virgin Spring (Svensk Filmindustri: Janus), the latest work of Ingmar Bergman (TIME, March 14), is a violently beautiful miracle play, an apocalyptic parable in which good and evil, Christian and pagan powers collaborate in a divine rebirth, the continuous nativity of love...
...understand you." In despair and atonement he vows to build a church of stone with his own hands on the spot where his daughter died. "I know no other way to be reconciled with my own hands. I know no other way to live." At that instant, a spring gushes out of the ground beneath the daughter's head. The father-and the Wotan-worshiping sister-fall on their knees to receive the miraculous water of life...
Like the ballad that inspired it. The Virgin Spring is a myth, and as a myth it is treated in this film. Bergman's style, usually subtle and allusive, is startlingly simple. The script, written under Bergman's supervision by Novelist Ulla Isaksson, who also did the screenplay for Brink of Life, is as clear and grave as a Mass. The actors, as always finely disciplined by Bergman, behave as formally as acolytes. The photography is as beautiful as it generally is in Bergman's pictures, but if anything more plain-there are very few cute shots...
...tiny transistors that control or amplify electrical current pulsing through a myriad of miniaturized devices, including 105,000 diodes, 23,000 neon-filled tubes that glow orange as they connect one telephone with another in a few millionths of a second. Electronic "eyes and ears," called scanners, spring into action the instant a phone is taken off the hook, activating a photographic memory brain that contains more than 2,000,000 bits of information in a coded pattern of black and white dots. The computer is so intelligent that it constantly checks its own circuits, makes some repairs itself. When...
...other U.S. banks are beginning to automate. Chase Manhattan, the nation's second largest commercial bank, will soon automate its check-processing procedure, expects to save 20% on clerical costs. Chicago's Merchandise National Bank will start phasing in a duplicate of the ERMA system by next spring. Milwaukee's First Wisconsin National Bank is installing an advanced check encoder that in one operation imprints the checks with all the data needed to process them through an ERMA system...