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Article: In plain view. (M.E.M.O).(beauty of North Dakota)(Brief Article)
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- The Christian Century
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- March 27, 2002
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IN A PREDICTABLY condescending article on North Dakota in a recent New Yorker (February 18-25), Mark Singer quoted Doug Burgum of Microsoft Great Plains: "We have this deep-seated Scandinavian, Teutonic outlook--a combination of dark Lutheranism and German Catholicism, which adds up to a primal sense that somehow we're not worthy." Dakotans are losers?
I'm a Plains son, though not a Dakotan, more Helvetii-Celtic than Teutonic (not dolichocephalic enough to be the latter), and friendly to "bright Lutheranism and German Catholicism." My purpose here is to discuss beauty's location in the eye of the beholder rather than to respond to the New Yorker.
Singer ...