Word: nordic
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...Christ crucified as a scarred and broken figure, his lifeless head pierced with grotesque thorns. The attendant figures sustain and even amplify the sense of total horror and shock. The figure of Mary Magdalene at the foot of the Cross is modeled on Griinewald's ideal of Nordic beauty, with wildly flowing silky blonde hair, sumptuous, rippling salmon-pink robe and veil. Griinewald has painted beauty moved to the ultimate of grief; Mary Magdalene's delicate features are a frozen mask of sorrow, her fingers writhe numbly, and even the sleeves of her elegant gown appear twisted...
...with a style of his own. His early music-En Saga, Finlandia and other tone poems-is filled with striding themes, echoes of folk tunes, broadly brooding melodies that reminded listeners of the good Finnish earth and established Sibelius as the composer of unfettered nature. With his occasional Nordic rages, he sounded like Brahms gone berserk, but he was also capable of a strongly appealing lyricism. His symphonies, with their acrid dissonances, their brassy shouts and cool, lonely instrumentation, seemed even closer to the stark northern land. Although Sibelius testily denied the implication that he wrote music merely descriptive...
...late, Nazi-minded sister, Unity Freeman-Mitford, was once acclaimed by Adolf Hitler as the "perfect Nordic beauty...
...everyday event of the Sunday skier, the downhill, does not rate as a problem event for the varsity. Even the slalom is familiar to many fun skiers. But in the Nordic Combine (the jump and cross country), the coachless varsity has slipped from its previous good showing...
...snow-covered wilderness north of Lake Huron, Canada's uranium industry came of age last week. The occasion was the official opening of two big mines. Algom-Quirke and Algom-Nordic, in the world's richest uranium field, the Blind River camp. The mines were opened by Rio Tinto Mining Co. of Canada Ltd., a subsidiary of the 84-year-old British mining firm, Rio Tinto Co., Ltd. of London, which acquired them along with other Blind River properties from Brooklyn-born Joe Hirshhorn for $60 million in cash and securities. At peak the mines will soon...