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Died. Harald Lander, 66, Scandinavian ballet master and choreographer who helped mold the Royal Danish Ballet into one of the world's greatest troupes; of leukemia; in Copenhagen. During his 19 years as ballet master, the former dancer choreographed such highly praised productions as La Valse, Spring, and his modern masterwork, Etudes. In 1951 scandal ended the Danish phase of his career; he was accused of taking liberties with ballerinas and forced to resign. Instead of retiring, he went to France and was soon appointed ballet master at the Paris Opera...
...could exude an earthy, appealing charm. On a Scandinavian tour, after what journalists suspected was a spat between Khrushchev and his wife Nina, the Soviet Premier asked the mayor of a Danish village if he performed marriage ceremonies. "Yes," said the mayor. "Well," said Khrushchev, "how does the ceremony go?" "You mean," said His Honor, "that you want me to read it now?" "Yes," said Khrushchev, and then, taking his wife's hand, he exchanged vows with her. Touched, Nina forgot that she was cross, and when the mayor intoned, "Do you take this man . . ." she lowered her eyes...
...government explains the move on the grounds that its voluminous registration system is being computerized. It also hopes to eliminate the confusing snarls that sometimes arise in a country where many people have the same surname (there are 600,000 Miillers alone in West Germany). Israel and the Scandinavian countries already have such systems, and a number of others, including Japan, are preparing to follow suit...
...German Department is the only department filling all of its openings for next year with women, giving a full professorship to Dorrit Cohn, presently at the University of Indiana, and two assistant professorships-one in German, one in Scandinavian-to Maria Tatar of Princeton and Carol Clover of Berkeley respectively...
...very facelessness of the Scandinavian and English cast lessens the film's power to shock. Scenes are shot from a vast emotional distance, as if Director Casper Wrede flinched at the pain of showing pain. In the suffocating grayness of the film, the personal dimensions of suffering tend to vanish. The tribulations of the hero were almost unendurable for the reader; the viewer, like a tourist, can only survey degradation held at arm's length. But One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich does occasionally convey a tragic sense of life discarded by politics: in the high...