Word: danish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most successful offerings: Alvin Ailey's Feast of Ashes, a tragic, turbulent story of matriarchal domination; Stuart Hodes's The Abyss, a tale of rape and lost innocence eloquently danced by Lone Isaksen, a young Danish girl who sticks out as the troupe's most promising soloist; Alley's Ariadne, highlighted by a fearsome battle between Theseus and a horde of minotaurs. Tradition was provided by Prima Ballerina Marjorie Tallchief (Skibine's wife and sister of the New York City Ballet's Maria Tallchief) and the famed Danish dancer Erik Bruhn as guest artist...
...word is cat in English. In Danish and Dutch it is kat, in Swedish katt, in German katze, in French chat, in Spanish and Portuguese gato, in Italian gatto, in Russian kot, and in Gaelic cat. Such striking linguistic similarities, which occur profusely throughout the Babel of the world, defy coincidence. They suggest that someone who knows one language need never walk blindfold through the labyrinth of a related tongue...
...There are 18 professional and 200 semiprofessional ballet companies in the country, two of which-Balanchine's New York City Ballet and the American Ballet Theater-are rated among the best in the world. Their chief international competition-Russia's Kirov and Bolshoi, Denmark's Royal Danish and Britain's Royal Ballet-consistently play to sellout audiences during their extensive U.S. tours...
...nine new courses will include Scandinavian Mythology, Scandinavian Folklore, Introduction to Germanic and Norse Literature. The Age of Kierkegaard, and Advanced Danish, for undergraduates. The Department Germanic languages and Literatures will offer graduate courses in runic inscriptions and modern Swedish literature, as well as a seminar on Strindberg, and possibly a course on modern Icelandic...
...filled with horseback riding, shuffleboard, pingpong, and swimming in summer-part of the famous Noordwijk Beach is reserved for the hotel. Language barriers go down fast. A Swedish boy at Skansebo −one of Denmark's five children's hotels −learned fluent French and accentless Danish (very difficult for a Swede) on a single summer holiday...