Word: scandinavianism
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Ahladianakis says that the restaurant draws in a lot of undergraduate customers. But he says he thinks that its success is the result less of name and more of location--the House is about five minutes away from the Quad, a perfect escape for hungry students tired of Scandinavian style vegetables and fresh brown brisket...
Ibsen's play presents a small Scandinavian town thrown into a furious controversy over the purity of the water at the local public baths. Enemy of the People's is dominated by Doctor Stockmann, who uses his discoveries about the water supply to put forward his elitist ideas. The cynical actions and reactions of all those in positions of authority question the responsibility of individuals to society...
...distorting lens to produce the effect, as earlier landscapists had used a smoked Claude Lorraine glass -- so that the image turned out more optical than visceral. But as his sense of the relations between mark and motif increased, Johnson's landscapes accumulated power, and some of the later Scandinavian ones, like Harbor Under the Midnight Sun (1937), are robust, fluent and assured. Johnson's early years are completely ignored at the Whitney, which robs the show of any pretense of being a real retrospective...
...nobody else has ever thought of. If that's true, Erasure has done a brilliant service to the world by remembering these sublimely silly songs. (I don't know anything about ABBA; they were before my time--the name occupies as murky space in my cultural memory, associated through Scandinavian-ness with the Wassa Bread my anorexic babysitter used...
...which after World War II was the driving force behind the creation of the United Nations and the World Bank. In the campaign to fashion a new environmental order, however, other nations are taking the lead. Canada and Germany, among others, are championing the biodiversity treaty, Scandinavian countries have imposed stiff taxes to discourage energy consumption, and Japan has sharply boosted its environmental aid to developing nations. At Reilly's press conference, one reporter impudently mentioned that Japan's pledge of $200 million to help clean up a single bay in Brazil was more than the $150 million...