Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hudson's Course. Henry Hudson and Sir John Franklin, great explorers, had perished trying to do what Larsen had done. The only man to make the east-west passage before him was Roald Amundsen. Larsen, too, was a Norwegian, born some nine miles from Amundsen's birthplace in Borge, Norway. As Amundsen's ambition to conquer the Arctic had been fired by Franklin's exploits, so Larsen had been kindled by what Amundsen had done...
...chronicle of a Norwegian-American family in turn-of-the-century San Francisco, Mama is unfolded retrospectively (from a corner of the stage) by daughter Katrin, now a successful writer. The kitchen-for-parlor home life that Katrin looks back on is dominated by firm, frugal, warmhearted Mama (extremely well played by Mady Christians) who, to give her children a feeling of security, pretends that the family has a flourishing bank account. Domestic fireworks are provided by hard-drinking, softhearted Uncle Chris (Oscar Homolka); domestic dissonances by Mama's prying married sisters. The adolescent Katrin composes excruciating short stories...
When Finland surrendered, most of the Germans in northern Finland were dug in near the nickel mines and the Norwegian frontier. Colonel General Lothar Rendulic had two divisions in the far north based on the Norwegian port of Kirkenes (35 miles northwest of Petsamo); three divisions were based farther south on the railroad town of Rovaniemi (65 miles north of the Gulf of Bothnia...
Both candidates would soon hear from Democratic Governor John Moses, now slowly recovering from an abdominal operation at Mayo Clinic. Tall, Norwegian-born John Moses, who is popular enough to have won three terms in the State House in a nominally Republican state, hopes the G.O.P. split is just what he needs to slide him into the Senate...
Mady Christians as Mama is quiet and brave and wise and she does a standout job. But right along with Mama is Oscar Homolka as Uncle Chris, "a black Norwegian" who stamps around bossing the family, drinking liberally, and living in sin with "that woman" who is his housekeeper. Little Dagmar has a pet eat. Uncle Elizabeth, and Nels, her brother, identifies it as a man eat, and backs up his statement by saying, "I looked...