Word: nordic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shrewdly Krogh casts himself in the role of defender of Aryanism. For thousands of years, says he, "Nordic man" has believed in the unity of body and spirit. By exaggerating the spirituality of race feeling, the anti-evolutionists are importing a non-Aryan, Oriental dualism of body and spirit...
...understand how these three men have dominated our thinking, says Author Barzun, try to imagine our speech without terms like survival of the fittest, struggle for existence, natural selection, exploitation of labor, dialectic materialism, scientific socialism, social significance, Nordic culture, music drama, leitmotiv, the twilight of the gods...
...such Nordic deliberateness could not efface the main impression. By thus voting almost unanimously to give up their King, Iceland's 118,000 farmers and fishermen showed pretty clearly how little they liked the Nazis...
...late Robert S. Abbott, publisher of the once-powerful Negro Chicago Defender, was soot-black. His two wives were white as snow. Wife No. 1 went around with her brownskin sister in order to prove that she was a Negro. Wife No. 2-Nordic-featured, with grey-blue eyes and straight chestnut hair-had no discernible relatives, dark or white...
Flat as a pfennig has fallen the neo-pagan celebration of the Nordic Yule at the winter solstice, sponsored by Dr. Alfred Rosenberg and other extremist Nazis as a substitute for Christmas. Not since the Reformation has Christian feeling in the Reich been more intense. This Christmastide will see millions of Germans quietly celebrating a Christian Christmas. Protestants and Catholics alike will sing that best-beloved of all carols, Silent Night, in the fervent hope that the silent night will be followed by the dawn...