Word: scandinavian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with outraged indignation to isolated reports of mistreatment of any of the 6,000 or so political prisoners who have passed through their jails. To be sure, no international agency had been able to establish that a pattern of police terror existed in Greece. At the insistence of the Scandinavian countries, however, the Council's Human Rights Commission set up an eight-man subcommittee in early 1968 to investigate charges that Greece was violating the rights of prisoners...
...reports, "may be plagued by jolting strikes and shutdowns, but in Scandinavia relations between workers and employers remain remarkably serene. This tranquility between such traditionally adversary forces seems at times as magical as a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. It also happens to be the special glory of the Scandinavian economic system...
With minor variations, the same negotiating patterns prevail throughout Scandinavia. The harmony derives from a distinctively Scandinavian sense of selfdiscipline. Items...
ORGANIZATION: Scandinavian unions are organized in large groupings that minimize jurisdictional squabbles. Unions do not try to raid each other for members or to leapfrog each other's gains. Secure in their jobs, labor leaders are free from rank-and-file pressure to win ever higher wage settlements...
...predict first of all that such a nation will bomb foreign populations very easily, since it has no sense of anything real beyond its own ego." To this insight Bly has brought the evidence of poets in translation, publishing in small editions the work of Spanish. German, and Scandinavian writers who were receiving little or no attention in this country. It is from poets like Trakl and Neruda, or Vallejo, that we must learn about the poetry of "feeling, will, and intellect." for their achievement is "a poetry that goes deep into the human being, much deeper than...