Word: scandinavia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mostly, it is because Celibidache's heavy rehearsal demands are financially impractical. Largely for that reason, he has never performed in the U.S. Yet, surprisingly enough he still conducts about 50 concerts a year, mainly in Italy, Germany, Scandinavia, Israel and Latin America. He also steadfastly refuses to make recordings because "even with stereo, it comes out in no more than tv»-> dimensions, whereas music is three-dimensional...
...mysterious "they" are out to get him, he wants to throw an F.B.I, wiretap on every single telephone conversation in the U.S., to be taped and stored in computers, so he can spot conspiracies against himself. He conceives of a grand union of the U.S. with Canada and Scandinavia, whose first President will be, of course, Hollenbach, who will then seize the rest of Europe by force...
...this was the basic gap between him and his disciple-adversaries: he was a European, a deep European, not just from the fringe of Britain, France, and Scandinavia. He grew up in the center of Europe between the wars, when old Balkan societies were in flux, governments were tyrannical or unstable, and economies sickly or chaotic. For Western Europe, terror was still an outrage, even in war-time an exception to the rule. In Eastern Europe, terror walked in everyday clothes; Dedijer's first wife joined the fighting against the Germans after she saw four Partisans hanging from street-lamps...
...Swedish company with the tongue-twisting name of Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget is known throughout the world chiefly for its sturdy, roly-poly automobiles, which bear the company abbreviation, Saab. Few outside of Scandinavia are aware that Saab is also one of the Continent's largest aircraft producers and a bulwark of Sweden's defense effort. The company has built about 90% of its country's 700-plane jet air force, the world's fifth largest-and soon it will increase even that impressive percentage. It has just been chosen by the Swedish government to build...
TIME ATLANTIC 230,000-240,000 Atlantic II (Ex-British Isles) 180,000-190,000 Europe 175,000-185,000 Continent 120,000-130,000 British Isles 50,000-60,000 Ireland 14,000-16,000 Scandinavia...