Word: scandinavia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...diligent reporter, Donald Connery set out in subsequent years (first as a TIME correspondent and later as freelance writer) to learn more. His chief conclusion, and the thesis of this lively book, is that Scandinavia really does I not exist as an entity at all. Denmark. Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland, while having much in common, are distinctly different in temperament and outlook, and are fiercely determined to stay that...
Connery's 590 pages, filled with fact and observation, suggest that he has left out nothing but the recipe for rendyr-stek in an effort to write the definitive book on Scandinavia in English. 'He could have done it in half the space: there is not much competition...
Merely Honest. When he deals with such famed Scandinavian problems as sex, suicide and alcoholism, Connery often turns into a partisan defender. Scandinavia's much publicized sexual laxity, which in turn produces a high rate of divorce, abortion and venereal disease, cannot be called anything so simple as immorality, he argues: the Scandinavians are merely honest when it comes to sex. "To the Nordic mind, Americans and Englishmen are sexual hypocrites: their pretenses are puritan and Victorian, while their performance is entirely the opposite...
...study of Scandinavia, Manhattan Psychoanalyst Dr. Herbert Hendin found some significant clues. Norwegians, who are less emotionally dependent and less repressed than their neighbors, average less than half the suicide rate of Sweden and Denmark. Dr. Hendin found Swedes bottled up emotionally, extremely ambitious, and prone to despair and self-aggression when their goals have not been achieved. In Denmark, Hendin declared, mothers control the behavior of their children by making them feel guilty; hence, suicide in Denmark, he theorized, is typically motivated by the attempt to establish guilt in a love object...
...Wozchod bank, financing exports from Switzerland, Italy, West Germany and Scandinavia, will thus parallel the activities of Russian banks already established in the West. The biggest of these is the Narodny Bank of London, established in 1911 and now the busy occupant of an eight-story building in London's City. The Narodny bank does 90% of its business in East-West trade transactions, discounts (at a fat commission) bills of sale of Western exporters who have shipped East; by doing so, it saves them a three-to six-month wait for money and makes trade with the East...