Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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College skiers who tire of the blue books can get away from it all at the newly established Norwegian Ski School for Americans at Kongsberg, Norway, it was announced last night...
Lectures on the Norwegian language, literature, and history will be given by college teachers and Norwegian political and cultural leaders. Students who pass a theoretical and practical final examination receive instructor's certificates from the Norwegian Ski Association...
Kongsberg is an old, dignified town located about 80 miles from Oslo. The Ski School Committee will arrange sight-seeing tours, and the ski students will have an opportunity to attend the various Norwegian winter sports features...
Bernard Shaw's treatment of the identical theme demonstrates Ibsen's inadequacy. Taking his semifaseist philosophy partially from the Norwegian playwright himself, Shaw builds an effective and convincing argument in "Heartbreak House" and other plays because his technique--his language, ideas, and situations--is bright and sharp enough to carry his doctrine. Ibsen bases his philosophic appeal on a situation that falls flat, on characters that are crude white and blackest black. The language--whether his fault or that of the translator--is so stilted, so drab that it tends to mire the play in a morass of monotony...
Family Man. The Hammersteins have a house in Manhattan, but he prefers Highland Farm, which was furnished by Mrs. Hammerstein, a professional interior decorator ("We didn't get cute"). There he rises at about 7:30 and gets a massage by Peter Moen, a bald, powerful Norwegian, without whom he refuses to go anywhere (partly because Peter is homesick, Hammerstein has decided to take a trip to Scandinavia next month...