Word: hjalmar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Adapted from a 1906 drama by Swedish Playwright Hjalmar Soderberg, Gertrud dawdles over the plight of an Ibsenish opera singer, a free and independent woman who regards love as unconditional surrender. "The man must belong to me completely," she says, and all intimations of psychological complexity stop right there. Having long since abandoned a famous erotic poet on grounds that he gave too much of himself to his stanzas, Gertrud is about to leave her husband (Bendt Rothe), a lawyer with Cabinet-level aspirations. Briefly, she tries a flighty playboy-pianist who decides that "the complete absorption of one another...
Hammarskjöld's father, Hjalmar, Sweden's Prime Minister from 1914 to 1917, was one of his nation's most hated men. Vilified by socialists and liberals, accused of being pro-German, nicknamed "Hungerskjöld" during Sweden's food shortage, Hjalmar left office a bitter man, aloof, isolated, cold...
Thus the state's Republicans were not exactly frantic when they learned that the Democrats were running a politically untested university professor in last week's special congressional election to fill the seat of Representative Hjalmar C. Nygaard, who died last summer. It would, the G.O.P. thought, be a snap...
Above all, Rumpf's conclusions ignore the testimony of German war leaders themselves on the value of Allied bombing. For the most part their opinions differ considerably from the findings of Rumpf. Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, the German Finance Minister during the 1930's, told investigators after the war: "Germany lost the war the day it started. Your bombers destroyed German production, and Allied production made the defeat of Germany certain." General of the Infantry Georg Thomas, military chief of the German Office of Production related: "Bombing alone could not have defeated Germany, but without bombing the war would have lasted...
...always, many House races will be decided because of fresh new personalities and faces. In normally Republican North Dakota, Incumbent Hjalmar Nygaard, 56, should win but has to contend with the whirlwind drive of handsome Democrat Scott Anderson, who is only 25-minimum age for a Congressman. A political whiz kid, Anderson was elected to the legislature at 21, managed the successful campaigns of Senator Quentin Burdick and Governor William...