Word: scandinavianism
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went to the university, where I took subjects like Scandinavian literature, history of historians, modern Slavic literature and philosophy of literature...
Kleist likes the "cool simplicity" and "clean typography" of Scandinavian jackets. Praising East European designs for their "unpretentious charm," he points to the "subtle and original" calligraphy of Czechoslovakian and Hungarian jackets. Poland has no competing publishing firms to vie for public favor with attractive jackets, but the State publishing monopoly nevertheless employs outstanding artists who have made Poland a leader in jacket design. Russian jackets, on the other hand, tend to be "stodgy and conventional." Kleist says that the lack of jackets on Chinese books is probably due to China's paper shortage...
Deep South? Hollywood? On to Colette's Cheri; more copyright problems, another misfire. Deciding that "you can't write opera unless it's you," he hit on Strindberg's play Miss Julie, whose morbid Freudian thickets "fitted me; I am fascinated with death." The Scandinavian setting, too, suited his Norwegian heritage, but he and Librettist Kenward Elmslie figured that the drama might have more impact if transformed into a love tragedy involving a Deep South heiress and her Negro servant. Timely and all that. Off to New Orleans they went to soak up some local color...
...Italian Historical Society of America, warned directly: We are going to put Yale against the wall. La Corte threatened to enlist the National Geographic Society in support of Columbus, but dropped the idea when he learned it was the Geographic that sponsored the 1963 excavation of a Scandinavian village in Newfoundland that dates from about...
TORE H. NILERT President Scandinavian Airlines Systems, Inc. New York City