Word: scandinavianism
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...those who find all this criminal activity unsettling after dinner, the networks will offer nostalgic dramas tagging after the top-rated The Waltons' family-bond wagon. ABC's The New Land, based on the movie, will star Scott Thomas and Bonnie Bedelia as Scandinavian emigrants settling in Minnesota, circa 1858. NBC's Little House on the Prairie, based on the Little House novels by Laura Ingalls Wilder, will begin with "restless but resourceful" Michael Landon (Bonanza), his perfect wife (Karen Grassle) and their three adorable daughters also settling in Minnesota...
...what really happened to Nixon are obviously tailored to fit the official conspiratorial view of the U.S. system. Says one Western diplomat in Moscow: "It jibes with what are probably their basic beliefs about how America operates. It also fits the deep-rooted Slavic feeling about plots." Adds a Scandinavian official posted in the Soviet capital: "No one wants to raise the question of popular pressure bringing down a government that lies. Imagine what that could mean here." But Moscow's preposterous Watergate coverage raises another question: whether the concept of détente includes an obligation...
Warren's success as a prosecutor inexorably pushed him toward a political career. Bluff, blond, big as a bear (6 ft. 1 in., over 200 lbs.), with a reassuring Scandinavian air of wholesomeness, he came across as the ideal public man. He had a family to match. In 1925 he married a widow of Swedish descent, Nina Palmquist Meyers, adopted her son and then sired five children of his own. An inveterate joiner (Masons, Elks, et al.) with a loose, easy "How are yuh, good to see yuh" handshaking style, he was a Republican whose personal constituency crossed party...
Some nations, like the Scandinavian countries, take good care of their aged. But not the U.S., where about a million American elderly spend their last years in nursing homes. In these homes, says Mary Adelaide Mendelson, a Cleveland community-planning consultant who has spent the past ten years investigating the nursing-home industry, they are often ignored, sometimes mistreated and generally exploited. Despite the $3.5 billion in federal, state and private funds that are poured into U.S. nursing homes each year, she writes in her recently published book Tender Loving Greed (245 pages; Knopf; $6.95), conditions in many homes...
...America. The colonial origins of the United States are still reflected in a cultural inferiority complex that carries over into politics. A cabinet reshuffle in a western European democracy gets more attention in the press than a coup d'etat in Central America; the lingering death throes of a Scandinavian king consistently merits more attention than the demise of an el Presidente. The Monroe Doctrine took care of Latin America once and for all; we haven't had to think about it since. As Gabriel Garcia Marquez writes in No One Writes to the Colonel, to outsiders "South America...