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Soon the Dresden press began to howl that her dances were un-Nordic. Wigman moved on to Leipzig, was still dancing a little, teaching a little, when the Russians found her. Russian reporters interviewed her and respectfully printed her opinions on the dance, but obviously still preferred their own graceful classic ballet to Wigman's somewhat gymnastic, angular and austere style. Russian authorities readily gave her permission to go on lecture tours and to reopen her school. The time has come, she announced last week, to start building the great, warming fire...
Mahler had few good words for his contemporaries. Of Puccini he said (after a performance of Tosca): "Nowadays any bungler orchestrates to perfection"; of Sibelius: "The most hackneyed clichés were served up with harmonizations in the 'Nordic' style"; and of Strauss: "A heap of slag...
...theme song of the conference was: "Scandinavians, get together." Even Sweden's cautious Premier Per Albin Hansson was stirred to apostrophize a common Scandinavian labor market, economic collaboration, common Nordic citizenship. Laski too was stirred. Hailing the advance of socialism in Britain, France, Belgium and Scandinavia, he cried: -"All of us stand side by side...
...Weidenreich traces the head-shape fallacy, on which the Nazis based their theory of the superiority of the longheaded Nordic type, to "a tragic anthropological error committed in good faith" 100 years ago by a Swedish anatomist named Anders Retzius. Retzius hit on the idea of identifying peoples or races by a head-measurement index based on the ratio between length (from the forehead to the back of the head) and breadth. Ever since, anthropologists have classified all men as "dolichocephalics" (long-headed), "brachycephalics" (broad-headed) and "mesocephalics" (in between...
Inga Arvad, sightly Danish film writer, thought it over for two days, then broke her engagement to British M.P. (Conservative) Robert Boothby-because she felt that the stigma of having once been described by Adolf Hitler as "the perfect Nordic beauty" would hurt her M.P.'s career...