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...That's no problem. In fact she lives next door to me in the dorm. I mean, I guess we could always stoop to talking about high school (we went to the same one). But I just can't take the first step. Do you know any Ibsen? Slacking in Stoughton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kiss Me, I'm Irish | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

More than a century ago, the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen hiked down the mountain range at Kvitfjell. It was, he recalled in his play Peer Gynt, akin to riding a wild buck through "the wide and dizzy void...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SKIING: Schuuuusss! | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

...Ibsen she's not, but Roffe-Steinrotter was poetry in motion as the first American woman to win an Olympic Alpine ski race in a decade. It was the second surprise victory of the week for the U.S. Her countryman Tommy Moe had blasted off with a gilded glide in the downhill and followed with a silver medal in the men's super-G. "I've skied my butt off," said Moe, a square- jawed, square-talking Alaskan. "Now it's paying off." On Saturday Americans struck ore again with a silver in the women's downhill for the irrepressible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SKIING: Schuuuusss! | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

...Ibsen's play A Doll's House, Nora walks out of her domestic prison and slams the door. When men try to behave decently and pay the bills and be good fathers, and then are informed for their trouble that they are not only unimportant in the scheme of things but also vicious and piggish, they may become sufficiently disillusioned to slam the door themselves -- pre- emptively. They are warned off. A man begins to think that marriage is a very foolish choice, an overrated idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Men Are They Really That Bad? | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

...have two other friends who took the course," Varela says. "Both attended zero percent of the lectures and ended up with A-minuses. Not only that, but for the midterm they were supposed to read the play "The Wild Duck' by Henrick Ibsen. They rented the movie instead and both...

Author: By Stephanie P. Wexler, | Title: Intellectual History Goes Easy on the Brain | 2/9/1994 | See Source »

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