Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Belgians seemed delighted with the dark-eyed Spanish girl King Baudouin picked for their queen. When the 30-year-old king met her a year ago-reportedly at a Swiss cocktail party to introduce him to the very eligible 24-year-old Infanta Doña Pilar of Spain-Doña Fabiola de Mora y Aragón, 32, was the unmarried one of the wealthy Marqués de Casa Riera's seven children, and busying herself with churchgoing, charitable works and formidably chaperoned visits to the beaches and tennis courts near San Sebastian. Baudouin took...
...mood of Canadian independence of the U.S. could also be seen in the results of a Gallup poll in which Canadians were asked whether they should become neutral in the Swiss tradition in the event of an atomic war between the West and East. While 58% lined up with the West. 42% were not so sure, and of these, 22% were actively for neutralism. Wrote Hugh MacLennan, one of Canada's top novelists, in the Toronto Star: "At the moment, the U.S. is considered a greater threat to world peace than Russia...
...dust jacket of this 100-year-old novel proclaims it to be "undoubtedly the greatest masterpiece of fiction by a Swiss writer," which is a little like referring ecstatically to the tallest building in Newark, N.J. In the period in which Gottfried Keller was busy being the greatest Swiss novelist (Der Grüne Heinrich was published in 1854), Tolstoy wrote War and Peace, Melville wrote Moby Dick, and Emily Brontë wrote Wuthering Heights. Still, Keller's book, in its first English translation, has enough literary and historical value to make it worth reading. The novel lacks...
Green Henry, Keller's hero, was born in a small Swiss town in the 1820s; his mother is the educated daughter of a pastor, and his father is a peasant who, through great ability and energy, has become a master builder. The father is the embodiment of the century's early surge of humanism; a fearless and optimistic man who taught himself architecture, and who leads his fellow townsmen in the building of schools and the forming of dramatic societies. He dies while Henry is still young, and his widow cuts up his green military uniform to make...
...Keller the state is not necessarily a higher concern than art, but serving the state is a high honor, and bohemianism a worthless existence. It is not hard to see the beginning of Germanic nationalism in the fascination that order, group effort and government have for Keller and the Swiss and German townspeople he describes. The author is at his most rhapsodic as he tells of the incredible organization of a pre-Lenten carnival, or rambles on about a dream in which Identity of the Nation is represented by crowds tramping purposefully over a bridge...