Word: copenhagen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tremendous series of jazz albums is coming out of Copenhagen featuring Dexter Gordon, Kenny Drew and a couple of great Danish performers. They are under the Steeplechase label and seem to provide the logical link to the pre-electric era of the 1960s. Perhaps the finest of the series is the two-record collection The Meeting and The Source with Jackie McLean sitting in on alto with Dexter on tenor. Dexter's The Apartment has some excellent moments also. Dexter fled the U.S. because nobody appreciated his greatness. Fortunately, he's back to haunt...
...First you go through terrible suffering, and then you become famous," Hans naively informed his mother when he left home at 14 to join a Copenhagen theater troupe. The boy suffered more than he planned: he was a catastrophe as an actor, dancer and singer. But he radiated intelligence, and something about him hinted at fame. Benefactors sent the adolescent to school, where Hans decided to become a playwright. "You can stand pain if you can write about it," he declared to a friend. The fledgling author became, says Bredsdorff, "a man of deep and apparently irreconcilable contrasts." Heinrich Heine...
...Friedman, inventor of the suitcase kidney. Fried man, director of the renal diseases section at New York's Downstate Medical Center, had planned to take 25 kidney patients on a European holiday in 1974, dialyzing them at stopovers en route. But at the last minute, medical authorities in Copenhagen concluded that they did not have enough dialysis machines to handle so many additional patients. Forced to cancel the trip, Friedman resolved to build a dialysis machine that kidney patients could carry on their travels and operate by themselves...
Bohr and his Chicago-born collaborator Mottelson (also a Danish citizen), both associated with Copenhagen's Niels Bohr Institute, *and Rainwater, of Columbia University, were cited for their 1940s and 1950s research on the inner structure of the atom. They helped explain oddities in the nucleus' behavior by showing that its myriad components spun and vibrated so as to distort the nucleus into an unexpected ellipsoid, rather than a sphere. These new insights helped set the stage for many of the important advances in particle physics during the past two decades of experimentation...
...gutted Spain's mission in Lisbon; a bomb exploded in the garden of the embassy in Ankara. In Rome and Milan, angry mobs set fire to Spanish tourist buses, and assaulted shops with Molotov cocktails. Danes smashed the windows of Spain's embassy and trade mission in Copenhagen. Paris was engulfed by the worst outburst of violence since the 1968 stu dent demonstrations as peaceful marches by leftists disintegrated into full-fledged rioting...