Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SALUTE TO DENMARK-Lefebre, 47 East 77th. Steering a course through folklore, these modern Danes find a fresh amalgam of fantasy and feeling, aptly tagged "abstractions which are living fables." Carl-Henning Pedersen. Asger Torn. Eljer Bille, Henry Heerup, Mogens Balle. Egill Jacobsen and Preben Wölck, most for the first time in the U.S. Through March...
...Speaker ordered that the clock be stopped, a tried-and-true parliamentary move. Opponents of redistricting were in a frenzy. Macon's Representative Denmark Groover had a hasty thought: if there is no clock, it can't be stopped...
...most important, what is gained by saying one painting is "the best"? Asger Jorn, Denmark's painter of livid, vivid abstraction, caused a bit of a tempest this year by refusing to accept a proffered Guggenheim award. "I get my money by selling paintings," he said, "and I think it is more healthy than by getting prizes. If you establish that one artist is better than another one, it is a question of convention-and you have to have a common measure, whereas the whole value of art is exactly that common measure doesn't exist...
...Since five types of botulin bacteria produce different brands of poison, five kinds of antitoxin are needed. Only two are produced in the U.S., by a single company (Lederle Laboratories). "If I find a case of Type E botulism," Dr. Petty said, "I'll have to send to Denmark or Japan for the antitoxin...
Silence & Courage. Hochhuth's answer is that calculated prudence is appropriate for a diplomat, but not for a man with the awesome responsibility of being Christ's earthly representative. In Der Stellvertreter, Hochhuth contrasts papal silence with the action of Denmark's King Christian, who helped forestall Nazi persecution by vowing to wear the Star of David if his country's Jews had to, and with Munster's Bishop Clemens August von Galen, whose fiery sermons ended the Nazi euthanasia campaign in his city...