Scandinavian Review

Storybook Royals

[...] through her demonstrated knowledge of art and design she has become an unofficial patron of the Danish fashion industry, one of the country's biggest economic sectors. Following receipt of a master's degree in political science from the University of Aarhus, he was posted as First Secretary to the Danish Embassy in Paris.

Sublime Nature

According to Rousseau, mankind had to return to a more natural stage to improve their lives and ethics. Norway, like Switzerland, is pointed out as an ideal; not only regarding nature but also regarding politics and morality. [...] the writer uses the Norwegian landscapes of Pauelsen and the comparison with Switzerland as an argument in a contemporary political discourse.

Fishing, Icelandic Style

[...] the public also needs to be informed of the state of marine resources and brought into the debate on how best to regulate and manage them. SINCE ICELAND DEPENDS FOR A SIGNIFICANT PERCENTAGE of its GDP on fisheries, the country has a fundamental interest in maintaining stocks and not allowing short-term interests to dictate catch policies. [...] science needs to be melded into concrete policies acceptable to borii the public and commercial interests.

Finland's Global Mediator

According to the conventional wisdom, his time had passed. In its announcement, the Nobel Committee stated that throughout all his adult life, whether as a senior Finnish public servant and President or in an international capacity, often connected to the United Nations, Ahtisaari has worked for peace and reconciliation.

Fiveever, Two of a Kind

[...] for some seven decades on both sides of the Atlantic, Borge crafted an act that offered no apologies for tilling much of the same ground associated over the years with such jarringly different comedians as Chico Marx, Jack Benny, Anna Russell, Henny Youngman, George Carlin and Stephen Wright. Borge biographies dutifully point out that his earliest years on a piano bench were a solemn enterprise, that he was regarded as a child prodigy and that the path to his first ceremonious performa...

The Rain/Regnen

It's raining. [...] because it's raining it's never done anything but rain. There is in truth nothing other than rain and all dreams are about the fact that it's raining. [...] it's in no small part my own fault that it's raining.

Note From the War in Kosovo/Notat Fra Kosovokrigen

NOTAT FRA KOSOVOKRIGEN Nede i koelderen kunnejeg intet se pa grund af mine solbriller fandtjeg ud af, da ieg endelig tog dem af og smed dem fra mig i vrede.

Note to Self/Huskeseddel

Imagine Now/Forestil Dig Nu

Lige nu fyger sneen rundt om huset og bortset fra huset er der kun sneen og mig og merket.

Point/Punktum

The wind blows and the trees toss all the darkness from their crowns.

Five Haiku/Fem Haiku

Leroy Anderson

FIRST THINGS FIRST. (This is not universal; some composers begin by composing a sketch of the materials, and deciding on orchestral details later.) Thus, understandably, he was a composer who worked exclusively in his head rather than at the piano. In 1948, when it came out, few listeners were riding in horse-drawn sleighs, and the sounds of sleigh bells, horses' hoofs, whip and (trumpet) neighing featured in "Sleigh Ride" evoked a nostalgic, Currier and Ives past.

Confessions of a Doubter

Facial SkIn as the Mirror of Personal Experience In a small self-portrait from 1886, when Munch was 22 years old, he is less concerned than before with depicting details, concentrating on what for him was the essential part, the face, which is lit by an imaginary source. While the face is built up in layers, laid over one another with a palette knife, the hair and the background retreat, not only in terms of color but also in the expressive power of the paint applied. In the 1886 self-portr...

In Memoriam: Inger Christensen

[...] a luminous example of "a world that plays its own games with us." In poetic terms this meant arranging stanzas by the Fibonacci numbers - one line followed by another stanza of one line followed by another of two lines, etc. [...] she alphabetized the first word of each stanza, resulting in:

Scanscope

[...] many people have contributed to completing the catalog, but the driving force has been Gerd WoIl, senior curator of the Munch Museum in Oslo. [...] external financing by Kaare Berntsen AS and Galleri Faurschou enabled formation of a separate project group, headed by Ms. WoIl, that could devote full time from 2004 to 2007 to collecting and processing information on Munch's paintings.

The Cruel Stars of the Night

Doghead

The Other Half: The Life of Jacob Riis and the World of Immigrant America

In Cod We Trust: Living the Norwegian Dream

Öyvind Fahlström: The Art of Writing

The Inner Circle

The Glass Devil

The Blood Split

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Viking to Victorian: Exploring the Use of Iron in Ship Building

Sunpath

Johan Ludvig Heiberg: Philosopher, Littérateur, Dramaturge, and Political Thinker

The Return

Heiberg's Contingency Regarded From the Point of View of Logic and Other Texts

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