Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cathedral's chapels have specific roles in both design and function. The Chapel of Unity, across the nave from the baptistry window, has a floor of intricately designed marble mosaic by Sweden's Einar Forseth and a ceiling arched to the shape of a Crusader's tent. To Spence, it is the heart of the cathedral's theme of unity. In another corner, the Chapel of Christ the Servant looks out through plain windows on the reality of grimy Coventry below, attempting to project the cathedral into Coventry's workaday world. Near by, the Chapel...
...hectic week, the paper value of the 1,545 stocks listed on the Big Board plunged by $30 billion - which is more than the combined gross national product of Australia, Sweden and Ireland. At week's end mighty IBM had fallen from its October high of 607 to 398∧ "X" marked the spot on the ticker tape where U.S. Steel was down from last year's high of 9¼ to 52¼. As wave after selling wave buffeted blue chips and glamour stocks indiscriminately, the Dow-Jones index of 30 key stocks tumbled almost 39 points...
...Counterfeit Traitor. Incessantly exciting story of an Allied agent in Sweden during World...
...century France (which Aldous Huxley skillfully described ten years ago in his historical narrative. The Devils of Loudun), this picture, set and filmed in Poland, is already celebrated throughout Europe and last year won a prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Its writerdirector, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, is being compared with Sweden's Ingmar Bergman. In Poland, the Communist press hailed Joan of the Angels? with expectable enthusiasm, while a Roman Catholic prelate called it "a dirty glove thrown in the face of the church." It is, more exactly, a nearly successful work of art, ultimately confusing, relentlessly ambiguous, but strong...
...When Sweden's Jenny Lind entered New York Harbor on a paddle-wheel steamer in 1850, P.T. Barnum went out in a rowboat to greet her, carrying a spray of red roses in his arms. She was a plain young woman of 29, hair parted in the middle. Her nose was a Nordic spud. She had a wide mouth, and she wore no cosmetics. But she was the most celebrated operatic soprano in the world, and a few days later a man bid $225 to buy the first ticket to her first concert in America...