Word: scandinavia
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Prophetic Figure. Appropriately enough, contemporary interest in Luther is proportionate to his direct impact on Protestant Christianity. Of the world's 230 million Protestants, 74.5 million call themselves Lutherans. Although a truly universal church, Lutheranism is strongest in Germany, Scandinavia and the U.S., where it is the third largest Protestant segment (after the Baptists and the Methodists). Three branches of the faith account for most of the nation's 10 million Lutherans: the Lutheran Church in America, the American Lutheran Church and the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod...
...Germany has also built up its own fleet. Today, its black, red and yellow flag flies over 155 ships. VEB vessels last year carried 6,200,000 tons of cargo to 340 ports, ranging from nearby Hamburg to faraway Haiphong, while two 600-passenger cruise ships carried vacationers to Scandinavia, Scotland and Iceland...
...problem of not being "ordinary" and yet not seeming too aloof-of lowering the barrier between sovereign and subject and yet not "staining the mystery," as Sir Harold Nicolson put it-is probably the greatest public relations problem of Britain's royalty. Scandinavia's rulers have ignored this problem, on the whole, by opting for ordinariness. No one crowds around Sweden's 84-year-old King Gustaf Adolf when he walks alone through the streets. A man passing him will take off his hat with a slight bow, whereupon the King will remove...
Alcoholism, moreover, is no more an acute problem in Scandinavia than in other countries; it is just that the people of the North drink irregularly and immoderately. Similarly, Connery feels that the Scandinavians' high suicide rate is misinterpreted. According to Connery, "the heart of the matter is that the more progress, the more suicides." That is not the whole heart, however (TIME ESSAY, Nov. 25). The U.S., more urbanized and advanced technologically, has a suicide rate only half that of Finland, Denmark and Sweden...
Gradual Change. Next to Scandinavia's social problems, Connery believes, foreigners least understand its approach to welfare. Actually, Scandinavia is no longer so extraordinary in this respect, since all the more prosperous West European countries are as much welfare states as Sweden or Denmark. "The U.S., while clinging to its old notions of every-man-for-himself, spends more money on welfare than any nation in history," he says. What makes Scandinavia unique, he declares, is that its social benefits have accumulated slowly over almost a century, with no particular impetus in the past three decades. He argues that...