Word: danishes
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Italy dropped out the next day, promising an early return. As the tumultuous week ended, speculators turned their attention to the French franc, the Irish punt and the Danish krone, all of which neared the bottom of their permitted range in the E.C. exchange mechanism...
Frederik had originally planned to live in a rent control apartment, but a citycouncil resolution and the prospect of damagingpublicity forced the Danish government to transferthe prince to his current digs...
Frederik, accompanied by his chamberlain PerThornit and Danish Consul General Leif Donde, wasrepeatedly asked if he feared for his safety afterthe murder of an MIT student from Norway earlierthis week...
...accordance with Danish custom, theprince did not comment on any matter that might beconsidered political. He said, however, that hisknowledge of political science would allow him toanalyze his country's situation and, as king,participate in the Danish government behind thescenes...
European modernism "primitivized" Johnson, as though a feedback loop were running from the Cubists' and Expressionists' use of tribal African art to a black artist in a Danish fishing village. "I myself feel like a primitive man," he told an interviewer in 1935, echoing the modernist founding fathers (Gauguin, Van Gogh), "like one who is at the same time both a primitive and a cultured painter." In essence, as the sculptor Martin Puryear points out in the catalog, European modernism let Johnson see himself anew; it provoked him into negotiating "his racial dilemma as a black artist moving between several...