Word: danish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...STARS GROW PALE, by Karl Bjarnhof. Written by a Danish author and musician, who is himself blind, Bjarnhof's fictional memoir of a boy gradually losing his sight is steadily touching, not once sentimental. In it, blindness leads to selfdiscovery, and when music fills the boy's dark world, it is as if he had won a major victory...
Bicycling to the Baribas. Most Zee scholars go even farther to confront life. Last summer one scholar wangled a mechanic's job on a U.S.-bound Danish steamer, thumbed his way to Illinois and wrote a thesis on French influences there. Architecture Student François Calsat pedaled a creaky bicycle all over the jungles of French West Africa, won a top prize for his study of architecture and folkways among the Dahomey tribes. Highlight of his report: an account of a month spent as guest of 80-year-old Tunko Cessi, bangana of the warlike Bariba tribe...
...Danish landscape is fat with a mild, monotonous beauty. The mentality is solid, calm and apparently healthy. But the psychical monotony in a strong mind creates depression. Remember that the inhabitants of these countries in olden days set out on the high seas as rough pirates...
Five such parables constitute this new book by Isak Dinesen (real name: Baroness Karen Blixen). All are pleasant, intriguing, and in the trollish Scandinavian vein of Danish Author Dinesen's Winter...
...summer of 1921, six of us-all summer bachelors-played at Copenhagen's Klubben. The six: the Norwegian minister, the Dutch minister, the Siamese minister, two officials of the Danish Foreign Office and I, the U.S. charge d'affaires. The game, with cutting in and out, was auction, but with one new major scoring wrinkle: if you chose to jeopardize what seemed like a sure game by bidding a small slam or a grand slam, the reward, as now, was 500 points for a small slam and 1,000 for grand slam...