Word: henrik
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After 258 years, home rule finally came to the world's largest island last week. Denmark's Queen Margrethe II and Prince Henrik made the five-hour flight from Copenhagen to Greenland's Søndre Strømfjord airport, helicoptered another two hours to Godthaab, the tiny (pop. 10,000) capital, and handed over the autonomy decree, bound in red leather, to the 21-member parliament. The royal couple then trudged through a May Day sleet storm to the 125-year-old Godthaab church for a short Lutheran service. After a Danish patrol boat boomed...
...could bring to undergraduate drama, take his basic "no more masterpieces" approach to the "classical" canon, an approach that discourages dull, "definitive" productions, promoting constant re-interpretation and directorial probing into the heart of each play. He has written at great length, most recently in a splendid defense of Henrik Ibsen in this month's issue of Decade magazine, about applying this theory to contemporary social problems. A director, he has written, must try to infuse the "classics" with comtemporary meaning, to apply the general human problems as the playwright articulates them to their specific symptoms in our time...
...Good Book, it turns out, is not so much good or bad as it is simply there. Describing the Bible as an intrinsic part of secular as well as religious culture, Authors Gusztaá Gecse and Henrik Horváth announce that their goal is to explain it as "a human and literary creation." In a favorable editorial, the Communist Party daily Népszabadság listed three reasons for Communists to gain familiarity with Christianity's handbook. One was to understand such Bible-based expressions as "Solomonic verdict" and "scapegoat," another to "enrich the dialogue with believers...
...lust for power is the unifying theme of the two plays that opened Canada's annual Shaw Festival at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, last week-but not power for its own sake. The central figures in both works, one by George Bernard Shaw and the other by Henrik Ibsen, are secular Salvationists who dream of bettering mankind's lot. One thrives; the other is doomed...
...Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler is a flawed masterpiece, but a masterpiece nonetheless. The plot, a study in conflict and alienation, revolves around a brilliant and selfish woman caught between fierce inner pride and contempt for those nearest her, between past choice and present entrapment, between a stifling marriage and fascination with an old admirer now involved with another woman...