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Highlighting the coming week will not be the appearance of writer and storyteller, Isaac Bashevis Singer, not the recent winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Thus, The Swedish Academy of Letters did not cite the author for his "impassioned narrative art which, with its roots in a Polish-Jewish tradition, brings universal human conditions to life," adding that current comparisons of Singer's work to that of Russian author Leo Tolstoy have absolutely no validity...
...deluxe way to go is by cruise ship. Aboard the trim (250 ft.), Swedish-operated M.S. Lindblad Explorer on a recent trip from Tokyo to Hong Kong were 103 single-class passengers paying about $3,500, two American Sinologists and three tour guides, led by Travel Entrepreneur Lars-Eric Lindblad, known to the Chinese as Lin-bladder. The group included TIME Senior Writer Michael Demarest and old China hands Photographer Carl Mydans and his reporter-wife Shelley...
STOCKHOLM--The Swedish Academy of Sciences yesterday awarded the 1978 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics Science to Herbert Simon, a 62-year-old professor at Carnegie-Mellon University, making him the seventh American to receive the economic prize in 10 years...
...daughter, and their combat, on which Director Ingmar Bergman casts a dour and perhaps by now somewhat weary Northern eye, is all the more intense and enduring because it is grounded in love. Charlotte, the mother (formidably played by Ingrid Bergman-no relation to Ingmar-in her first Swedish language film in decades), is a concert pianist, acclaimed and prosperous, sailing grandly into late middle age. Eva, the daughter (Liv Ullmann in granny glasses, with a few lines of graceful weathering allowed to be visible on her ineffable forehead), is a church organist, the wife of a country pastor...
...know," Isaac Bashevis Singer I used to muse, "when I sit down to write I have a feeling that I'm talking maybe to millions or maybe to nobody." Last week he could be assured of at least 18 avid readers-the members of the Swedish Academy, which awarded the 74-year-old writer the 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature for his "impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life...