Word: danish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though feared by Oslo's Labor government and predicted by numerous opinion polls, the referendum's results shocked Common Market capitals. In Denmark, Premier Jens Otto Krag, who had warned his people that a negative Danish vote could mean devaluation, unemployment and a reduction of welfare services, was forced to suspend foreign exchange transactions. In London, antiMarket forces claimed that Norway's rejection would reduce Britain's influence on EEC decisions and demanded a referendum for Britons, even though Parliament has already assented to EEC entry. In Brussels, where news of the vote was received...
...racism is particularly ironic and painful in an island culture with a history of near complete and happy integration going back to the arrival of Danish colonizers nearly 300 years ago. Never in memory was it a problem for blacks and whites to sit at the same restaurant table or drink at the same bar. But St. Croix's first all-white bar has sprung up as a sanctuary in Christiansted. Architect Frank Prince recently took his wife to a place they used to go to drink and was immediately accosted by a black friend who said: "Frank...
German air lanes are crowded not only by private planes and gliders but by the military aircraft of seven air forces: West Germany's own, the U.S., British, French, Dutch, Belgian and Danish. Commercial pilots have charged that fighter planes deliberately use passenger craft as targets for dummy runs, which is like playing chicken at the speed of sound. By refusing to allot more personnel and modern equipment to air traffic control, Bonn is playing a similar game of chicken with passengers' lives...
Keach's Hamlet, in the current New York Shakespeare Festival production at Central Park's Delacorte Theater, is not the brooding surgeon of his agonized soul, not a raging, grieving mourner at the yawning grave of all existence. Instead he is a kind of Danish Willy Loman. He would like to be well-liked at Elsinore. He barely sniffs the stench of corruption at the court but is baffled by the toughness of the territory, as if it were New England. And like Willy Loman, he is virtually humorless, unable to season his despair or get a proper...
Saul Bellow, D. Litt., author. Henry Ford II, LL.D., chairman, Ford Motor Co. In an age when many industrialists look for the riskless course and too many business spokesmen are puppets of their public relations staff, you have remained a thoroughly authentic outspoken man. Piet Hein, L.H.D., Danish scientist and philosopher who invented the Soma Cube, and the "grook...