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...famed roast beef, and in poor neighborhoods, stores whose stock in trade was once chiefly Brussels sprouts and potatoes now feature oranges and even avocados. Across the North Sea. Scandinavians are thriving. Norway has rebuilt its merchant fleet to twice its prewar tonnage, added 100 hotels since 1945. Norwegian housewives, who bought only 2,000 washing machines in 1950, snapped up 64,000 last year. Even in chronically impoverished Ireland, real national income is up 25% from...
...suck candy in the Congo" (i.e., do not take innocence into dark places) seems to be the moral pointed by British Novelist Elspeth Huxley,* latest explorer to go soul-searching in the jungle. Dr. Ewart Clausen, a famed Norwegian scientist, has renounced the world for his bush clinic at Luala, in French Equatorial Africa, and has become "a secular saint in the humanist calendar." From the far corners of the earth pilgrims come to sit at his feet; he proffers a bag of sticky bull's-eyes, advice, and the magic of his presence...
...Here there is no longer talk of Nature, only eccentric fanaticism, delirium-drunk moods and fever-sick hallucinations." So said the conservative Norwegian Aftenposten, outraged at the show of some 50 oils by young Edvard Munch (pronounced Moohnk) in the summer of 1892 in Christiania (now Oslo). The storm of criticism was all that Munch, then 28 and just back from Paris, needed to become a scandalous success in the gloomy provincial city. Berlin painters promptly invited him to show in the German capital, and the scandal was even greater, splitting the Union of Berlin Artists permanently into two camps...
...wrung anguish from the painter, driven him close to madness. The exact identification of the woman who so long tantalized Munch has never been officially revealed, but art historians now believe that the redhead who appears as a flaming, enigmatic image throughout Munch's work was a young Norwegian girl named Dagney Juell. She was Munch's model in Berlin before she moved over to live with Swedish Dramatist August Strindberg, finally married the best friend of both men, Polish Poet Stanislas Przybyszewski. One of Munch's most powerful paintings of the redhead was Jeatiousy, in which...
Trees Behind the Church. The letters show Joyce as a man drunk on language. He had the gift of tongues (just for fun, he dashed off translations of a poem by James Stephens in German, Latin, Norwegian, Italian and French). His view of himself was generally rueful, whether he was commenting on his physical "cowardice" or remarking on his "steely cheerfulness in what does not afflict me personally." He read hugely, but at times with so little discrimination that his head felt full of "pebbles and rubbish and broken matches and lots of glass picked up 'most everywhere...