The following season he wowed editors with a show called "Blixen," interpreted by some critics as a reference to the German word for lightning (blitz) and by others as a nod to the reindeer because there was a lot of fur. From Wordnik.com. [post-gazette.com - News] Reference
A side note: Donner and Blixen were originally named Dunder and Blixem. From Wordnik.com. [A Cultural History of Santa | PopPolitics.com] Reference
A side note: Donner and Blixen were originally named 7 Dunder and Blixem. From Wordnik.com. [Print - A Cultural History of Santa | PopPolitics.com] Reference
Karen Blixen in the doorway of her home in Kenya with her beloved Scottish deerhound. From Wordnik.com. [Women Farmer Writers] Reference
Karen Blixen the central character (and a real person) really did shoot lions and other game. From Wordnik.com. [What's your favorite hunting movie or movie with a lot of hunting in it?] Reference
On the grade above the Blixen ranch Shirk looked back and saw the men coming and had little thought of danger. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of a Pioneer] Reference
In the case of Karen Blixen, she found herself in Africa and built and created her own coffee plantation there. From Wordnik.com. [Women Farmer Writers] Reference
We are particularly fond of the nostalgic Karen Blixen-esque spectators and the safari print pumps ( "Mrs. Robinson - are you trying to seduce me?"). From Wordnik.com. [Kate Schelter: The Top 6 Shoe Trends For Fall 2008] Reference
They say that Redford was totally miscast as Dennis -- some even complain about Meryl Streep as Blixen -- but the real star of the film is Africa anyway. From Wordnik.com. [Utter Coincidence] Reference
Oddly, of these writers, Hemingway and Chatwin are stark though hardly minimalist, Leigh- Fermor ornate, and Maxwell, Kipling, White, and Blixen between the extremes somewhere. From Wordnik.com. [Influences Part 1] Reference
†His sister Alfhild maintained that it was principally the tales of the Danish Karen Blixen that made her brother long to go to East Africa—Conversation with author, 08/07/92. From Wordnik.com. [Storyteller] Reference
I know of three famous women writers who were also independent farmers: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953), Beatrix Potter (1866-1943), and Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) (1885-1962). From Wordnik.com. [Women Farmer Writers] Reference
In the mid-60s, when Tonio was growing up, Karen was not much changed from when its namesake, Karen Blixen, lived there in the 20s — her house had not yet been turned into a dire museum and a parking lot. From Wordnik.com. [A Murder in Kenya] Reference
Literature of the type produced by Huxley and Blixen is written from an outsider's point of view, with outsiders' concerns in mind, and it displays a consciousness of being part of a European colonial diaspora. From Wordnik.com. [Coming to Birth] Reference
It is true that Philip Percival had a buffalo die with his head in the now ample Percival lap, and that Baron von Blixen, if there were any justice for elephants, would have been trampled to death at least twice. From Wordnik.com. [Hemingway on Hunting] Reference
The set up could have been a movie, if only Isak Dinesen (a.k.a. Karen Blixen) had given birth to a dozen girls who grew up to master high-powered careers and navigate the urban jungle only to be dropped onto the East African plains to take bucket showers. From Wordnik.com. [Martha McCully: Ten Days In Tanzania: What Africa Taught Me (Photos) (Video)] Reference
Karen Blixen (believe this was her pen name only) is the woman Out of Africa the movie was about. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference
Karen Blixen It's a sad commentary on the state of American electoral politics that when I heard that. From Wordnik.com. [Texas in Africa] Reference
Blixen, who wrote under the pen name of Isak Dinesen, was born in 1885 in Rungsted, north of Copenhagen. From Wordnik.com. [The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines] Reference
Baroness Karen von Blixen, that "the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road.". From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
Neither Matheny nor Blixen - nor, for that matter, any of my readers - was optimistic enough about the stock market. From Wordnik.com. [STLtoday.com Top News Headlines] Reference
Some of the other early answers (incorrect) were Joyce Carol Oates, Rebecca West, Karen von Blixen-Finecke nee Karen Dinesen, pen name Isak Dinesen, and Raymond Carver. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Mass] Reference
There is a perfunctory tour of artefacts that are a mix of original furniture and clothing belonging to Blixen, and props left over from the 1985 film starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford. From Wordnik.com. [Stuff.co.nz - Stuff] Reference
Carson McCullers - Blixen, McCullers, Marilyn Monroe. From Wordnik.com. [GoodShit] Reference
Inspiration: The novel "The Immortal Story" by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen). From Wordnik.com. [Listal promoted] Reference
(The ten top contributors to the list below are Thomas Jefferson, Ernest Hemingway, Carl Sandburg, C.S. Lewis, Eeva-Liisa Manner, T.E. Lawrence, John Adams, Alfred Deakin, Karen Blixen and Walker Percy.). From Wordnik.com. [I'm doing it too] Reference
On, Dunder and Blixen!. From Wordnik.com. [The Night Before Christmas and Other Popular Stories For Children] Reference
On Comet! on Cupid! on Donder and Blixen!. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference
Another young Karen Blixen. From Wordnik.com. [Out of Africa] Reference
And another of Blixen, from Longing For Darkness. From Wordnik.com. [Utter Coincidence] Reference
Karen Blixen |. From Wordnik.com. [At Heart, I'm A Provincial New Yorker] Reference
Nod to Blixen. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Blixen saw the. From Wordnik.com. [STLtoday.com Top News Headlines] Reference
Two Readers Reply to Borges, Blixen, and Voegelin. From Wordnik.com. [The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe] Reference
Karen Blixen. From Wordnik.com. [Thinking About...] Reference
She won't -- Dunder and Blixen! ". From Wordnik.com. [Oonomoo the Huron] Reference
On, Comet! on, Cupid! on, Dunder and Blixen!. From Wordnik.com. [In The Yule-Log Glow, Vol. IV (of IV)] Reference
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