Word: scandinavian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...post-Homeric Greek legends of Athene's birth from the head of Zeus, and Dionysus' birth from his thigh." For in all primitive myth, says the Goddess' Graves, "the female, not the male, gives life, even if she is no more than a primordial Scandinavian cow licking stones into human shape...
...making Benson the villain. Even popular Republican Senator Ed Thye is in critical trouble, although running hard on an anti-Benson program. In the Ninth Congressional District, Democrat Coya Knutson is beset with family and factional problems, but is expected to win narrowly over Odin Langen, a big, friendly Scandinavian state representative who should be right down the Ninth's alley. In the Third (near Minneapolis) District, crotchety Democrat Roy Wier always has trouble, always wins, and should again. At least two Republican incumbents are in much worse shape: Albert Quie, whose loss in Minnesota's solid Republican...
Five such parables constitute this new book by Isak Dinesen (real name: Baroness Karen Blixen). All are pleasant, intriguing, and in the trollish Scandinavian vein of Danish Author Dinesen's Winter...
Died. Carl Brisson, 64, bouncy, curly-locked actor-singer, who artfully used his high-styled cocktail-party personality in a profitable four-decade career as a Scandinavian Maurice Chevalier; father-in-law of Actress Rosalind Russell; of cancer of the liver; in Copenhagen...
...become spoiled," says San Francisco Retailer Harry Jackson. "There was very little urgency or excitement in our field until two years ago, because houses were going up so fast that we had a built-in market. The only creative part was modern furniture, and that was mostly Scandinavian...