Word: erike
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...novel venture in role versatility was conceived by the Norwegian Family Council, a state-financed organization that lobbies for legislation aimed at improving family life. After working out plans with the help of University of Oslo Sociologist Erik Gronseth, the council recruited couples willing to participate in the role-swapping experiment. Among those who volunteered was Anne Ibsen Bulko, 30, a descendant of Playwright Henrik Ibsen, one of the pioneers in Women's Liberation...
...Impressive as Picasso's Cubism now seems, it won no immediate public recognition for its creator. That came only in 1917, when Impresario Serge Diaghilev commissioned Picasso to design a new ballet, Parade, with music by Erik Satie. Picasso went to Italy with the ophidian prodigy of the salons, Poet Jean Cocteau, to work on the sets and costumes. The motifs he encountered there inspired a series of stout, monumentalized "neoclassical" compositions (33-35). From then on, Picasso had a repertory for his Arcadia: the vine-wreathed gods and nymphs, the Minotaurs and classic busts, the disjecta membra...
...rank among FORTUNE'S top 50 foreign banks but supreme in a country of 8,000,000 people. The two merging banks will disappear; Marcus Wallenberg, 72, will be chairman of the new enterprise, and his 47-year-old son Marc will be assistant managing director. Lars-Erik Thunholm, head of Skandinaviska, will be managing director...
...five-set finals match at Wimbledon. At the U.S. Open, while Players Clark Graebner and Dennis Ralston were calling the officials "idiotic" and "ridiculous" for banning racket throwing and abusive language on the court, Smith went serenely on his wav, demolishing everyone he met. "Stan," says his doubles partner, Erik Van Dillen, "talks with his racket...
Radio and television broadcasting is cheap-jack today, it was yesterday, and so it will probably remain. Its history is pockmarked with compromise, indecision, and capitulation before the law of the fast buck. If Erik Barnouw's three-volume history proves anything, it is that when responsibility for "the public interest" is borne by privately-motivated individuals, the public only gets the product that promises the easy profit...