Word: scandinavianism
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...bitter controversy. But for all the noise ahead, Canada's Prime Minister Lester Pearson felt the 18th to be "the Assembly of opportunity." Pearson backed Secretary-General U Thant's request for a permanent peace-keeping force composed of specially trained units from contributing nations. "The Scandinavian member states have shown the way," said Pear son, adding that a similar Canadian force was now available...
They came from all over: a mill hand from Leningrad, a crown prince from Oslo, an oilman from Houston-some of the best small-boat sailors in the world. Two were former world champions, four were Olympic gold medalists, five had won the Scandinavian Gold Cup. For seven days, on the wind-lashed waters of Long Island Sound, they battled for the world's 5.5-meter sailing championship. And when the contest ended last week, they sadly packed their sail bags and left the championship to C. Raymond Hunt, 55, a bespectacled grandfather from Tilton, N.H., who had never...
...trouble in picking a successor to Dr. Franklin Clark Fry as president of the Lutheran World Federation for the next six years. He is shy, solemn Dr. Fredrik Axel Schiotz, 62, president of the 2,300,000-member American Lutheran Church, which has its greatest strength among Midwesterners of Scandinavian and German origins...
Egon Matzner, official of the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions, declared, "There can be no greater mistake than to think of the six countries of Western Europe as all of Europe." Matzner emphasized the vital role of the European neutrals--Austria, Switzerland, and the Scandinavian countries, in encouraging better relations between Eastern and Western Europe...
Until he was nearly 40, he painted heavy landscapes that rarely showed a human being. His style was a Flemish variation of the German and Scandinavian expressionism. Then in 1936 he discovered the surrealist work of Italy's Giorgio de Chirico ("I was haunted by his poetry of silence and obsession") and Belgium's René Magritte. "They were the springboard that brought me into my own world," he says. Delvaux destroyed almost every painting he had ever done and began anew...