Word: danish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British frigate glimpsed the Santa Maria sailing in the general direction of Africa, but then, surprisingly, lost sight of it. Four U.S. destroyers, two tankers, a nuclear sub and 18 planes combed the area, but found nothing. The pirated liner seemed to have vanished from the map until a Danish freighter, chugging along a normal shipping lane, radioed that it had passed the Santa Maria and exchanged greetings. At the Pentagon press room in Washington, someone put up an ironical sign reading: "Sleep soundly tonight. The Danish merchant marine is watching over...
Shadows on the Grass, by Isak Dinesen. This aristocratic Danish author of superior Gothic romances has fashioned a nonfictional still life, elegiac in mood, diamantine in craft, of her past as a coffee planter in Kenya...
Shadows in the Grass, by Isak Dinesen. This aristocratic Danish author of superior Gothic romances has fashioned a nonfictional still life, elegiac in mood, diamantine in craft, of her past as a coffee planter in Kenya...
...GOOD LIGHT, by Karl Bjarnhof. A sequel to the blind Danish author's autobiographical novel of boyhood (The Stars Grow Pale) that is every bit as good as the first. The walls imposed by sightlessness and the desperate efforts to break through to contact with the life of the seeing are described with candor and beauty, without sentimentality or self-pity...
BUSCH-REISINGER: "Two Centuries of Danish Deep Sea Research Through Dec. 30. "German Graph Art from the Late Middle Ages to Reformation." Through...