Word: scandinavianly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...ranks high in affluence: a $12,200 a year median income in 1968. Yet Evanston's 80,000 population includes over 1,600 people on welfare, as well as top-salaried executives and professional men. The ethnic majority is still basically Northern European-English, German and Scandinavian-but there are Poles, Luxembourgers, Russians, Canadians, Armenians, Orientals, blacks...
...Aboard a Scandinavian Airlines flight from Oslo to Copenhagen last month. Borten handed a document marked for-trolig (confidential) to another passenger, saying: "This is interesting. Read it." The document was a report indicating that the European Economic Community would probably balk at the special terms Norway demands as a condition of its entry into the Common Market. The other passenger was Norway's leading Common Market opponent, Arne Haugestad, head of a pressure group called the People's Resistance Movement Against Membership in the EEC. "For your private information," Borten cautioned as he gave the paper...