Word: danish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Businessmen are always talking about ways to end that chronic corporate ailment, the time-wasting conference. Now Danish Engineer Søren T. Lyngsø 46, head of a Copenhagen-based industrial instrument firm, has come forward with a conference-room conversation stopper: a sort of electronic tote board that reminds company staffers that talk is far from cheap...
...with the golden fleece of erotic dreams for the Mediterranean peoples," and shoulders so flawless that they "reminded Swedish men of winter nights in boarding schools, and English women of golden hockey captains." Their director, Albert McCobb, is a grotesque gourmand who is devoted to Roquefort cheese but spurns Danish blue because it is "non-ewe." McCobb may remind some readers of Alfred Hitchcock-just as an actor named Chuck Moses may be reminiscent of Charlton Heston. But the similarity is coincidental; there are no such persons as Alfred Hitchcock and Charlton Heston...
Wednesday, March 13 HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN (ABC, 8:30-11 p.m.).* Danny Kaye as the old Danish storyteller, assisted by Farley Granger and Ballerina Jeanmaire...
...years ago, a Scandinavian composer proclaimed: "I believe in Bach, Mozart, Carl Nielsen, and absolute music." Carl Nielsen? At the mention of the Danish composer's name, most non-Scandinavians could only look blank or grope for their music dictionaries. Nielsen's reputation in his homeland had been supreme since his death in 1931 at 66, but unlike his Finnish contemporary Jean Sibelius, he was a nobody in the European and especially the U.S. music world...
...obscurity. But at the same time, that remoteness enhanced his originality. Such composers as Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss, who were working in the late romantic tradition, projected their explosive forms out of subjective, often agonized emotion. Nielsen's free-flowing counterpoint and virile rhythms sprang partly from Danish folk roots, partly from a robust, wholesome objectivity. "What business have other people with my innermost feelings?" he asked...