Word: danish
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...been destined to become a King, Frederik IX of Denmark might well have earned a measure of fame as an orchestra conductor. Trained as a pianist in his early years, he studied under the Danish Royal Opera's Conductor Georg Hoeberg. As Crown Prince, Frederik used to sit night after night in the Royal Theater, ready to take over the baton if his aging mentor should be taken ill. Later, he was frequently an incognito guest conductor of the state radio orchestra, without the knowledge of critics or radio audiences...
...film in a series of Dreyer's work, is the director's last film. It culminates the style Dreyer developed in a career that spanned nearly the whole development of film technique (1919-1964) yet produced only fourteen feature-length films. Until Dreyer was honored in 1952 with the Danish government's award to its important filmmakers--the lease of a Copenhagen cinema--he suffered from a chronic lack of financing. He was apparently never able to get sufficient funds for several projects that he dreamed of--such as a production in color. The films that he was able...
Born in Paris, Anais Nin is a diarist and minor novelist. Her father was a Spanish composer; her mother, of French and Danish extraction, was a singer. They were separated and Anais and her two brothers moved to Manhattan where they were brought up by their mother. Anais Nin's first diary (1931-34), written in her early twenties when she lived in a suburb of Paris, deals with her friendships with Lawrence Durrell, Dr. Otto Rank, Henry Miller and his wife, June. Of all the diaries, this one is the most interesting. Her second diary...
Gibb was the only European member of the Egyptian Academy of the Arabic Languages in Cairo, and was also a fellow of the British and Danish Academies...
...lesser degree, the Soviets have made a similar point with Denmark, whose NATO task in any conflict would be to mine the exit from the Baltic-a move that would require approval from the Danish Parliament. The Soviets now regard the Baltic as virtually a Cornmunist sea. On a "goodwill" call in Copenhagen last August, Soviet Vice Admiral L.V. Mizhin, deputy commander of the Soviet Baltic fleet, pointedly complained that an American cruiser had shown up in the Baltic Sea, and that West Germany had intensified its naval exercises there. The Soviets are on the verge of achieving their most...