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MARK LANE Nykobing, Denmark...
...Danish swashbucklers made Douglas Fairbanks look like a party poop. Later, he enlivened and internationalized his programs with Afternoon of a Faun by America's Jerome Robbins, Card Game by South Africa's John Cranko, Aimez-vous Bach by Canada's Brian MacDonald, and Agon by Denmark's First Eske Holm, a Flindt protege. Brash, bristling with energy, Flindt has reorganized the training methods of the company and its dance school, initiated open auditions and, for the first time, hired non-Danish dancers. ("Five million Danes are not enough to draw from," he says...
...amount of real power wielded by modern monarchs ranges from zero in Europe to the Old Testament authority which Emperor Haile Selassie, the seemingly indestructible Lion of Judah, still exercises in Ethiopia. Royal trappings run the same range-from the furled umbrella that Denmark's King Frederik carries to go shopping, to the nine-tiered umbrella throne of King Bhumibol of Thailand. The champagne-and-chorus-girl monarch is gone or going; uncrowned dictators or oil millionaires are much freer to be glamorous wastrels these days than are kings...
...high suicide rate is misinterpreted. According to Connery, "the heart of the matter is that the more progress, the more suicides." That is not the whole heart, however (TIME ESSAY, Nov. 25). The U.S., more urbanized and advanced technologically, has a suicide rate only half that of Finland, Denmark and Sweden...
Gradual Change. Next to Scandinavia's social problems, Connery believes, foreigners least understand its approach to welfare. Actually, Scandinavia is no longer so extraordinary in this respect, since all the more prosperous West European countries are as much welfare states as Sweden or Denmark. "The U.S., while clinging to its old notions of every-man-for-himself, spends more money on welfare than any nation in history," he says. What makes Scandinavia unique, he declares, is that its social benefits have accumulated slowly over almost a century, with no particular impetus in the past three decades. He argues that...