Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poor Norwegian town hopes to become prosperous by attracting tourists to a bathing spa. Dr. Stockmann (Stephen Elliott), the spa medical adviser, discovers that the town's waters are polluted. Stockmann assumes that his brother Peter, the mayor (Philip Bosco), will start an immediate cleanup. Peter adamantly refuses. The doctor believes that a liberal publisher (Conrad Bain) and his crusading editor (David Birney) will print the truth. They turn against him. He tries to rally the populace and is reviled as An Enemy of the People. At play's end, the town is morally polluted by the fraud...
After returning to Berlin as a press attache in the Norwegian mission, Brandt was persuaded by fellow Social Democrats to apply for reinstatement of his German citizenship, which had been lifted by the Nazis. Brandt, who is thin-sk'inned and sensitive, has often been called a "traitor" in West Germany for fleeing during the Nazi years. He argues that his background has helped Germany come to terms with itself. In the foreword of a forthcoming British edition of his early writings, Brandt declares: "I did not regard my fate as an exile as a blot on my copybook...
Such attention as he got came in oddball ways. In 1965 he created a vogue for raga-rock, by introducing the sitar in Norwegian Wood. It was he who interested the rest of the Beatles in transcendental meditation. For years George lived in a ranch house painted in psychedelic colors. He finally surrendered it, but only for a 30-room Gothic mansion complete with secret doors and sculptured gnomes. No superstar, but no ordinary man either was George Harrison...
...portrayed by Norwegian Actor Toralv Maurstad, Grieg comes across as a cross between Horatio Alger and Jackie Coogan. He confides to his close friend, Rikard Nordraak (Frank Poretta), "I was beginning to lose any hope, Nordraak, of ever being important." The plot follows Grieg's agonized crawl to fame, illustrated principally by a lot of fancy name-dropping. "I've written 15 songs for the poems of Hans Christian Andersen," he shyly admits. Cries Nordraak, eagerly: "Has Hans heard these?" Later, Grieg's wife Nina (Florence Henderson) sighs: "How do you suppose the others managed?" Replies...
...believe it. Even though his friends told him last week that he had won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Russia's greatest living writer, whose works are banned in the Soviet Union, remained incredulous. The friends, who normally shield his whereabouts carefully from outsiders, finally told a Norwegian correspondent in Moscow how he could reach Solzhenitsyn by telephone. Per Egil Hegge of Oslo's Aftenposten immediately called him to confirm the news. Then Hegge asked the author for a comment...