Word: danish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opening ceremonies showed a temperately turned-on effort to bridge the gulf between the traditional and the revolutionary. As the richly robed churchmen filed into Uppsala's twin-spired Gothic cathedral, trumpeters, oboists, French horn and trombone players scattered throughout the church sounded a hauntingly dissonant hymn by Danish Composer Per Norgard worthy of John Cage. Seated together with Sweden's octogenarian King Gustaf VI Adolf, was another secular guest, Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda. The prayer was read by Tanzanian Evangelical Lutheran Bishop Josiah Kibira, resplendent in a stole whose tribal designs stood in dramatic contrast...
...explaining that the 1,000 police swarming about the grounds created "a spiritual climate in which we could not present works." The Russian exhibit arrived late. Three of the four artists in the French pavilion closed their exhibits. So did 20 of the 23 Italians, and artists in the Danish and Yugoslav pavilions. A group of 97 artists and critics demanded the resignation of the Biennale's organizer, Professor Gian-Alberto dell' Acqua. The awarding of prizes was postponed indefinitely...
...pounds and francs-the very currencies that creditor countries have been shunning. It thus would have made little sense for the IMF to try to defend the franc by making its loan to Paris largely in dollars or sterling. Instead, it put together a potpourri of currencies ranging from Danish kroner and Irish pounds to South African rands and Mexican pesos...
...employees from designating some portion of their wages for the credit union. Result: the wages were duly deducted for the credit union-then transferred for payment as union dues, saving face all around. Such conciliation would be far easier if adversaries would only heed the aphoristic advice of Danish Scientist-Poet Piet Hein...
Born. To Princess Margrethe, 28, heiress to the Danish throne, and Prince Henrik, 33, the French-born former Count Henri de Monpezat: their first child, a son; in Copenhagen...