Word: copenhagen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Immortal Failure. When he finally got to the U.S. several months ago, it was to celebrate only one of his recent honors. A show at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art drew 400,000 visitors in 20 weeks. Elsewhere last year, he had retrospectives in Paris, Copenhagen and London. He won first prizes at the Pittsburgh International Exhibition in 1961, the Venice Biennale in 1962, and was awarded the $10,000 Guggenheim International in 1964 and France's coveted Grand Prix National des Arts in 1965. But Giacometti cared more for life than honors. Said he, "I prefer...
...wants to be," he told his wife, "if it is the silliest thing in the world, let him have his own way." At 14, and gangly as a stork, Hans Christian stowed his toy theater, a loaf of bread and 13 rigsdaler into his knapsack and went to Copenhagen...
...Copenhagen was a magic town. It was said that the King, after the gates were locked at night, slept with the keys under his pillow. And Hans Christian was sure that if one knocked on the castle door, his majesty would open it himself, in slippers and crown and any old robe...
...sure, too, that people would be good to him, and so, of course, they were. Giuseppe Siboni, director of the Royal Singing Academy in Copenhagen, took him in off the street to sing at a dinner party, and gave him lessons till his voice broke. The Danish Royal Theater offered him employment as a troll. The King himself, who had read some of his poetry, sent him on a two-year tour of the Continent and granted him 400 rigsdaler a year...
...wasn't there, Charles de Gaulle, also dominated the deliberations of Europe's other trade bloc last week. Meeting in Copenhagen, the seven members of the European Free Trade Association-Britain, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, Austria and Portugal-argued over how hotly to pursue their long-range goat of closer trade ties with the Common Market. The big question: Would a major effort only backfire by stirring the French to cause more trouble inside the European Economic Community...