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...caves and crannies that honeycomb the hills, and in 1942 Tito's future Foreign Minister, Koca Popovic, led the First Proletarian Brigade across a plateau called Freezing Point. Temperatures fell to -40° F, and 200 troops lost either their limbs or lives. This is where the Nordic events, the ski jumping and the biathlon will be held in February...
...Nordic competition, Albert Leger and Margaret Waters both placed second...
Africa warmed the Nordic strains of Karen's life and art. She began to tell stories to her tribal servants. The feudal relationship took on the characteristics of a folk tale. When she read poetry, a tribesman begged her to "talk like rain some more." As she invented stories, her listeners came to regard her as a kind of Scheherazade, a role, Thurman points out, in which "the challenge of seduction was heightened by the perils of failure...
...National Museum of Design, has organized and displayed this exhibition with its usual flair. Scandinavian design, says the museum's sumptuous exhibition catalogue (published in hard cover by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.; $45), "scatters flowers before your feet and lays the pale colors and mild beauty of the Nordic summer before your eyes. Less apparent is the truth that this sunny effect is achieved against a background of darkness, cold, ice and snow...
Since then, Nordic designers have given every European style their distinct mark. Denmark's Georg Jensen's silver and opal Dragonfly brooch (1904) and fellow Dane Erik Magnussen's Grasshopper brooch (1907) of silver and coral are unmistakably art nouveau. They are also unmistakably Scandinavian. Like virtually all the objects in this exhibition, they show the patient toil brought to bear on stubborn, natural materials. This is what Frank Lloyd Wright called "organic" design...