Word: henrik
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When We Dead Awaken by Henrik Ibsen. Loeb Ex. 7:30. April 13 through 15. Free...
...news three times, according to historic formula: "King Frederik IX is dead. Long live Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II." The new Queen of Denmark is also the Countess of Monpezat since her marriage in 1967 to French Count Henri de Laborde de Monpezat, who changed his name to Henrik and became a Danish prince. They have two sons, Prince Frederik, 3, and Prince Joachim...
...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...
...Henrik Ibsen kept a live scorpion in an empty beer glass on his writing table. "From time to time the brute would ail; then I would throw in a piece of ripe fruit, on which it would cast itself in a rage and eject its poison; then it was well again." As usual in an Ibsen scene, opera glasses are not needed to recognize the symbolism. Tiny, armored, venomous, Ibsen was an ailing spirit whose dramas stung the 19th century's conscience and gave European theater a new seriousness. After launching into poetic tragedy (Brand, Peer Gynt), Ibsen imported...
Suzannah's Steel. Born in 1828 in a tiny Norwegian lumber town, he was seven when his well-to-do father's finances collapsed. About the same time, Henrik became convinced (incorrectly, his biographer suspects) that he was illegitimate. He writhed under this double disgrace, and when he left home at 15 it was forever-he saw his parents only once after that. Withdrawn and stumpy, he was apprenticed for six years to an apothecary. By day he brewed prescriptions over a kitchen stove; by night he wrote radical poems and skits that read like bad Kipling...