Word: sven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HAMMARSKJÖLD: A SPIRITUAL PORTRAIT by Sven Stolpe. 127 pages. Scribner...
...surprise to Sven Stolpe, one of Sweden's most distinguished writers and chancellor of the Swedish Catholic Academy. As a close friend of Hammarskjöld's since early youth, Stolpe was aware that at one time Hammarskjöld considered studying theology instead of economics, and over the years, through conversations and correspondence, he came to understand Hammarskjöld's increasing preoccupation with mysticism as well as his gnawing unhappiness. In this admiring and compassionate, but still searching volume, Author Stolpe strives to find the roots of what made his old friend the kind...
GUGGENHEIM-Fifth Ave. at 89th. An exceptional exhibition of American drawings selected by Curator Lawrence Alloway includes work by such senior draughtsmen as Gorky and Tobey, along with some by relative newcomers, including Larry Poons and Sven Lukin. A handsome historical precis of Albert Gleizes' offers the U.S. its first chance to review the work of one of the earliest cubists. The drawings run through Oct. 25, the Gleizes' show through...
More Proof? Swedish Minister of Defense Sven Andersson was suspicious of Wennerstrom for two years prior to his arrest, but Premier Tage Erlander was not informed until after agents had picked up Wennerstrom on the way to his office. As opposition critics pounced, Erlander went on television to explain: "It is impossible for the government to be informed of every person who is under suspicion. We need more proof in a democratic society before we can take action." It sounded like a lame excuse to Liberals and Conservatives, who demanded a parliamentary investigation. Meanwhile, always the gentleman, Wennerstrom reportedly asked...
...started looking for jobs. Even the steel mills are hiring only high school graduates, and Government programs for training the unschooled have hardly made a dent. "You just cannot make a shoe clerk out of an unschooled machine shop employee, no matter how hard you try," says Houston Economist Sven Larsen. To many, the only answer lies in broadened vocational training for those of limited talents and expansion of the nation's higher educational system to train more and more students for the increasingly sophisticated requirements of the economy...