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...Last week, despite a provisional settlement, more than 250,000 workers were still out on strike in the worst general labor tie-up since World War II. Beyond the current strike is the issue of who pays how much for Denmark's cradle-to-grave security. Danish taxes are among the world's heaviest-nearly 53% of last year's gross national product. Meanwhile, the biggest industry in the country is public administration...
...past year, baffled Danish authorities have been searching through Glistrup's books for some secret that would explain his legerdemain, but Glistrup insists that there is no secret. "My yearly accounts are always negative," he boasts. "I explain this to the tax people. They agree. As a lawyer, I should welcome this absurd theater, so absurd that it beats Ionesco completely, but what I want to do is show how unreasonable these tax laws...
High jinks and high Cs reigned supreme throughout the operatic career of the Danish-born heldentenor (heroic tenor). For 24 seasons (1926-50) at the Met, it was impossible to imagine Wagner without "the Great Dane." He sang in more than 1,000 Wagnerian performances-more than three times the total of any other singer-with no hint of diminution of the robust tenor that could swoop from a splendorous high to a deep, resonant...
Pride. Life offstage was no less strenuous. Melchior consumed mammoth meals, washed down by heroic quantities of aquavit and Danish beer. He traveled widely and was an enthusiastic big-game hunter. (He liked to wear the skin of a deer he had bagged as his costume in Siegfried.) He took great joy in entertaining friends with his wife "Kleinchen" during festive holidays like Christmas, when he unabashedly decked himself out as a jolly Santa Claus...
...energy seemed illimitable. In his last years, Melchior continued to hunt big game in Africa, served as international president of the Danish Royal Guard, and last fall conducted the orchestra at the San Francisco Opera's 50th anniversary concert. He grew as deaf as Beethoven, but his passion for music was not impaired, nor his concern. A sizable portion of his time was devoted to administering the Heldentenor Foundation, which he established in 1968 to encourage new talent in an annual competition...