Word: sweden
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Common Market. The idea does not sit well with some Common Market members; they feel that the whole supranational concept-which may one day lead to Europe's political unity-would be watered down by allowing special terms and treatment for such neutrals as Austria, Sweden, Switzerland or Finland...
NICOLAI GEDDA, 36, is as much admired for his dramatic ability as he is for his crisply controlled lyric tenor. Although he was born in Sweden, his clear enunciation of English has delighted Metropolitan audiences unaccustomed to understanding a word from the stage. It was partly...
...break in 1958, when he created the role of Anatol in Samuel Barber's Vanessa at the Met. Son of a baritone in the Don Cossack Chorus, Gedda was a clerk in a Stockholm bank when he decided to make singing his career, soon landed a spot with Sweden's Royal Opera, was invited to La Scala. In the course of singing about Europe and at the Met, he has picked up over 70 operatic roles, many of the non-Italian wing, including Grigori in Boris Godunov, Tamino in The Magic Flute - and most notably the title role...
What earns respect for Carnegie is its pinpoint giving. In 1924 it called the first U.S. conference on adult education. In the 19305 it got Sweden's Gunnar Myrdal to produce An American Dilemma, the first real study of U.S. Negroes...
...strict economic logic, Sweden should not have an auto industry. Its population of 7,500,000 is too small to support mass production of cars. Its low tariffs make it an alluring market for foreign automakers. Its wages-Europe's highest-prevent Swedish producers from underselling foreign cars at home, let alone abroad. But Volvo and Saab, two rival Swedish cars, are both speeding ahead...