Word: nordic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...museum's court stood a plaster replica of The Meeting of the Waters. Outside the entrance pranced the equally famous bronze Folke Filbyter equestrian statue (original in Linköping, Sweden), its carefully matured green patina turned a soupy grey by orange floodlights. Inside, Tritons, mermaids, strong-faced Nordic mythological characters, Aztec-and Assyrian-looking monoliths, squirmed and writhed with the power and suppressed energy that only a master sculptor can give to inanimate stone and bronze...
...Their programs made good listening for patriots. The Marine Band's Captain William F. Santelmann played nothing but U. S. music. His three programs contained Stephen Foster, Vic tor Herbert. Gershwin, Ferde Grofé, and some surprising items: band arrangements of a movement from Howard Hanson's Nordic Symphony, Jabberwocky from Deems Taylor's Through the Looking Glass suite, a rumba from Harl McDonald's Second Symphony...
Hitler's artists (nearly all unknown outside Germany) had sheep-footed it neatly along their Führer's academic path. Patriotism, heroism, war and svelte, 100% Nordic nudes dominated the show, with many busts and figures of Mussolini and Critic Hitler thrown in for good political measure. The most competent of this art (like the innocuously pleasant white Aryan nude of No. 1 Reich Sculptor Josef Thorak) would not have disgraced a high-class Victorian barroom of the 18905. The worst of it, resplendent with heiling storm troopers and Prussian eagles, would have looked well...
...Alfred Rosenberg, who began life as a drawing teacher and is now chief mystagogue of National Socialism, spends much of his time in private sanatoria. He dreams of a vast Germanic-pagan world in which Teutonic supermen live in ideological bliss. Rational Germans, few of whom possess the Nordic qualities he extols, call him "The mad prophet of Teutonic superiority." Sanatorium wardens tap their heads and whisper "Vogel im Kopf" (bats in the belfry). When Fellow Dreamer Adolf Hitler sees occasion, however, he often revives Comrade Rosenberg from his traumatic reveries and uses him for launching a trial balloon into...
...Detained under defense regulations" in London was Lady Diana Mosley, wife of imprisoned British Fascist Leader Sir Oswald Mosley, pre-war friend of Adolf Hitler, sister of Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford (once termed the "perfect Nordic beauty" by the Nazi Führer, last reported convalescing at her father's Oxfordshire home from a mysterious head wound sustained in Germany...