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Mondale had also earned a moment of self-congratulation. He had shed enough of his Norwegian reserve to kill the old suspicion, once expressed by his Minnesota mentor Hubert Humphrey, that he lacked "fire in the belly." Still carrying Humphrey's banner of liberalism and contending that his was the party of compassion, Mondale bucked the austere, antigovernment spirit of the times. At several junctures he was down and almost out; each time he bounced back and recaptured the lead. If he scores his expected nomination victory, he will start the November race a heavy underdog. But he will start...
...stubby little barrage balloons, tugging at their cables above every spot that might offer a target to low-flying German planes, kept the island from sinking into the sea under the weight of men and machines massing for Dday. London was a kaleidoscope of uniforms: British, Commonwealth, French, Norwegian, Belgian, Czech, Dutch, Polish and, of course, American. So many U.S. officers worked around Grosvenor Square that G.I.s walking through the area kept their arms raised in semipermanent salute. In the southern counties, near the coast from which the armada would sail, military convoys clogged the crooked lanes of the countryside...
Appearances do not favor Mondale. A buttoned-up Norwegian who drinks diluted Scotch, and only sparingly at that, he is no cowboy. Lanky Coloradan Hart comes a lot closer, at least to the urban variety. He wears cowhide boots and an oversize brass belt buckle, and is the only Democrat who can wear a ten-gallon hat and look as if he means it. Nor does the territory offer fertile turf for the former Vice President. Texas is a right-to-work state where unions are about as popular as taxes and Big Government is loved even less than...
...Doll's House follows Norwegian housewife Nora Helmer's burgeoning self-awareness as her husband learns of a deception she committed to save his life. His unsympathetic and selfish reaction leads her to question the basis for her marriage and her place in her society. The major problem with the traditional feminist interpretation is that much of the detail has become dated: turn of the century Norway is not 1980s United States. The Lowell production circumvents this potential flaw by emphasizing the underlying human relationships rather than the specifics of Nora's situation. Nora's struggle is transformed from that...
...back on, his dark suit is crisply pressed. Every hair is at parade rest. The unlit but badly mangled cigar is gone. Neat, crisp and controlled, ready to face the public, Walter Mondale is once again in what his aides call his "full Norwegian" mode...