Word: scandinavianism
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...college graduates, his father an ordained minister who could find work only as a foreman in a brick kiln. When Roy Wilkins was four, his mother died of tuberculosis and he was sent to live with relatives in St. Paul. He grew up in a poor but integrated, predominantly Scandinavian neighborhood, working his way through the University of Minnesota as a porter, dining-car waiter and stockyard worker...
Hell he is right. In the photographs, one of the women models is smiling ridiculously to a Masai warrior. She looks vaguely surreal here, like an orange tree might, or perhaps a Scandinavian child. She seems to be saying something to them,though doubtless she doesn't know the language. Just as doubtless, the Masai warriors don't know what is going on. She seems to be saying: "Beauty is only skin deep... But then again...
Although the Dutch pushed for immediate arms talks and the Scandinavian nations wanted more positive mentions of detente, ultimately all accepted a toughly worded document attacking the Soviets for arms buildup and aggression. Haig agreed to a partial endorsement of detente, a policy still popular in most of Europe. The communique describes it as a NATO goal "whenever Soviet behavior makes this possible." The allies in turn agreed to defense spending at "necessary" but unspecified levels and reaffirmed U.S. plans to install 572 new land-based cruise and Pershing II missiles in Western Europe while bargaining with Moscow is under...
Further correlation is found in the longevity rates of Scandinavians, who are inveterate coffee drinkers, as compared with the English, who are habitual tea drinkers. The average Scandinavian outlives the average Englishman...
...introduced by Malinowski in the 1930s. I met Jomo Kenyatta and read Facing Mt. Kenya. For the first time I learned about female circumcision. About 30 years later a paper on Female Infibulation was published in Studia ethnographica Upsaliensia XX, 1964, by Professor C.G. Widstand, director of the Scandinavian Africa Institute. His paper has what Dr. Counter calls "explicit photographic materials" on violence against women (and children). Dr. Counter should demand that this documentation be removed from the Harvard University Library and burned! To his outburst about my intelligence and academic training I state that apart from University and field...