Word: danishness
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...Soviet diplomat in Copenhagen was expelled by the Danish government after reportedly being caught passing money to peace organizations. But there is no concrete evidence that Moscow has been funding pacifist groups on a large scale, although the Soviets have been engaged in covert activity for so long that they rarely leave traces. Western Europe's well-organized Communists, however, have given organizational and financial support to pacifists. In France and Italy, the main organizations are virtual subsidiaries of powerful Communist parties. In West Germany, the extraordinary discipline of the Oct. 10 protest in Bonn was in good measure...
...countries were questioning its management methods. The agency's executive committee convened at its Geneva headquarters last week partly to look into widespread criticism of UNHCR inefficiency and poor morale. Though few UNHCR staffers and other relief aides criticize the motivation of High Commissioner Hartling, 67, a former Danish Prime Minister who has held the top post at the agency since 1978, some believe he lacks the leadership qualities needed to cope with a far-flung and slow-moving U.N. bureaucracy...
...masterstroke, however, was to come up with a made-up jumble of supposedly Danish syllables that proved to be astonishingly catchy. Häagen-Dazs, as he called his new ice cream in 1960, is meaningless in Danish, and, as Mattus observes somewhat impishly, the Danish language does not even use the umlaut, but he "thought it gave more pizazz." In fact, Mattus had no connection with Denmark; his own family had emigrated from Poland. But on the tops of his ice-cream cartons he printed a map of Scandinavia, with a star marking Copenhagen and an arrow swooping toward...
...opera is based on the novel Niels Lyhne by the Danish writer Jens Peter Jacobsen and concerns Niels' love for two women, Fennimore and Gerda. Most of it is devoted to his tragic affair with Fennimore; some months after finishing the rest, Delius added the two Gerda scenes, which provide a happy ending...
After several seasons of extraordinarily high prices, Americans in Denmark will get a break. The dollar has appreciated 22% against the krone, while prices at tourist-oriented hotels and restaurants have risen only 5%. A new service for tourists is Dan-menu, a standard two-course Danish meal in many restaurants in Copenhagen and elsewhere for about...