Word: nordic
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...Calvin Trillin's 1977 comic novel Runestruck, the fictitious Maine coastal town of Berryville goes crazy when a stone with inscriptions that seem to be Nordic is unearthed there. Some townspeople want to cash in on the bonanza by doing such things as building a theme park and holding a festival. Others seek, in vain, to avoid exploitation. Chaos reigns as the citizens realize that Berryville is likely to become a national shrine: the site of the first Viking settlement in America. Last week real events in a small Maine community seemed on the verge of following those...
Such paintings are grounded in a Gothic past. In general, expressionism preferred the art of the Nordic Middle Ages, with their unrelenting insistence on the "four last things"-death, judgment, heaven and hell-to any Mediterranean tradition. Egon Schiele's knobbly waifs, all etiolated limbs and pinched flesh, are the lineal descendants of the fallen Eves in Gothic art. The expressionist body is a scrag of mutton with big extremities, very unlike the prosperous Renaissance nudes that, however mutated, survived in Picasso and Matisse. Expressionism was an art of confession, directed against the impermeable crust of a deeply formalized...
Dave Rand braved both the cross-country and jumping contests, and landed first place in the Nordic combined event...
...Middlebury the following week, the men held on to their Division I status by finished in tenth place, ahead of challenging squads from Division II. Andy Demars, who paced the Nordic skiers with a 24th in cross country, and Dave Rand, who placed third in nordic combined, turned in fine individual performances...
...women's team also finished well at Middlebury, despite being forced to hitch-hike to the race after its car died five miles from the Snow Bowl. Top finishes for alpine skiers Kris Hodgkins and Vera Fatjova, and Nordic skier Judy Rubinowitz, qualified all three for the national championships, and gave the team seventh in the alpine competition and tenth overall...