Word: danish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Danish reader, Paul Grene, who enclosed a picture of his very comfortable home, rashly extended an invitation to have TIME correspondents visit him. He wrote: "If one of your correspondents should happen to be in Denmark . . . and have a few days off, ask him to come over and see us. We have some pretty good fishing and shooting and a fairly comfortable spare room...
...campaign for "Trade, Not Aid." Last week, five U.S. allies-Denmark, The Netherlands, Canada, Australia and New Zealand-charged that U.S. tariff restrictions on imported dairy products are a flagrant violation of the worldwide General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). "It is incomprehensible," said a Danish delegate to GATT, "that the U.S. prefers to continue to assist us through dollar grants from the American taxpayer . . . instead of allowing us to pay in goods for dollars we urgently need to buy American products." The Dutch, even angrier, slapped a retaliatory tariff on U.S. flour imports...
...Danes believe they have a special reason to be relaxed. As the official orchestra of the Danish State Radio, they play at least five concerts a week, 46 weeks a year, and they never have to worry about deficits. Moreover, the orchestra members (85 men and seven women) hold what amount to permanent appointments...
...Danes need not have been apprehensive. In Manhattan last week they played a program of Stravinsky, Dvorak, Grieg and Danish Composer Carl Nielsen, and thoroughly captivated a big audience in Carnegie Hall. The Danes were more relaxed and easygoing (and a bit less precise) than most top U.S. orchestras. They bowed their strings lightly, making bright, pure threads of sound. The brasses were not particularly powerful, but they sounded as mellow as if the instruments were made of soft copper. The horns-prone in any orchestra to skid off their notes-were as secure as a pipe organ...
...jobs and our orchestra as long as we want them. It makes for enjoyment of music. Here, where everyone knows that unless he plays absolutely up to the mark every minute he may be out of a job, he may play better, but there is more tension." Should a Danish player get "too relaxed," Orchestra President Bentzon "speaks like an older brother." By tradition, an aging player moves back to a rear desk, and eventually out (with a state pension) of his own accord...