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...they have for decades, four generations of family gather for their annual holiday in the comfortable old summer house on an island in the Stockholm archipelago. The patriarch sometimes wakes up in the middle of the night convinced he's dying; the rest of the time he's a hearty reactionary. His daughter Katha (played with a kind of wary warmth by Birgitta Valberg) is a doctor resisting the steadily accumulating evidence that the safe, predictable middle-class world is dying. She hopes wanly that the reassertion of family traditions will combine with her own insistently retained routines...
...real map of modernist culture in early 20th century Europe was not that of a capital surrounded by aesthetic provinces. It was more like a confederation: a scatter of nodes and local centers, engaged with one another and enjoying a persistent osmosis of ideas across the frontiers-Moscow, Berlin, Stockholm, Munich. Weimar, Barcelona, Vienna. Paris was uniquely hospitable to the avantgarde. But it had no monopoly on newness. The exhibition of 164 paintings and graphics that opened last week at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art is a sharp reminder of that fact. Organized under the title "German...
Werner Vögeli, 45, Swiss-born co-owner of Stockholm's dazzling Operakallaren and chef for all official banquets of the Swedish royal court: "Every ingredient must speak its own language. Its original taste must be easily identifiable. Ingredients should not be blended so that the guest has to ask, 'It tastes wonderful, but what is it?' Serve a glass of brut Champagne or kir before dinner-never, never, never martinis. And the meal should not go on too long. My dinners at the royal palace consist of five courses that take little more than...
...labor). Man, Toffler says, developed certain biological equipment long ago, and it is not suited to the industrial or the incipient super-industrial society, hence, maladaptation. This maladaptation is inherent in all modern societies--both capitalistic and socialistic--and Toffler predicts upheavals from "Tokyo to Washington, D.C. to Stockholm to Moscow" as each day brings an increase in tempo in modern society...
Since 1974 more than 50 Yankee bond issues have been sold in the U.S., almost all by governments or organizations whose credit is government-guaranteed. Borrowers include the national governments of Australia, Finland and Norway; the city governments of Oslo and Stockholm; the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Investment Bank; the Japan Development Bank; the state-owned French railroad, telecommunications and electricity networks. Privately owned foreign companies still sell few bonds in the U.S.; they prefer to raise their money in Europe where, for all the disadvantages, there are no tough rules ordering disclosure of secret corporate...