Word: nordic
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...became one of the progenitors of pop. That humorists such as Kaplan and Pistoletto can find galleries in Manhattan nowadays is largely because Oldenburg's monster hamburgers and soft vinyl Dormeyer mixers made comic contemporary art acceptable, indeed sometimes all but inescapable. "Jokes," says Oldenburg, with all the Nordic intensity of a Bergman, "are one way to reach people. Perhaps humor is the only useful tool in a dissolving world...
Mitchell, a Nordic skier (jumping and cross-country), sparked the squad to a fifth place finish at the Middlebury Winter Carnival this season. At that meet, Mitchell came in 15th in the cross-country event right behind Jim Sise for his best finish of the season...
...suggests that a vigilant press and growing democratic values keep the extreme rightists cornered. And there are also the usual set pieces: the Horatian discourse before the Berlin Wall, the discovery of the Germans' compulsive need to be loved, the bloody reappearance of Schmisse (dueling scars) on the Nordic faces of West German Korporationen youth...
...captaincy of Harvard's Nordic ski team is not the most gloried position in Harvard sports, but for Jon Chaffee '66 it was a chute to two years of skiing around the world, in an enviable version of military service...
...addition to training for the biathlon, Chaffee will be getting in shape for the National Nordic "A" Team, which will represent the U.S. in the Olympic cross-country, competition. He is currently a member of the 15-man "B" team, from which the five-man U.S. squad will be selected...