Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three in Holland, one in Brussels, three in Paris, two in Normandy (to see the landing beaches), and five days in Switzerland. Cost: $1,000 to $1,500. ¶ A 14-to-21 day tour, depending on whether the tourist goes by plane or boat, to London, Brussels, Paris, Amsterdam, with one and a half days for detours. Costs: $650 to $1,130 by ship, $785 to $985 by plane. But warned Reed: "Anyone who goes just for fun will be sorely disappointed." Transportation in Europe is slow and crowded, hotels below prewar standards. Food is scarce and monotonous almost...
...sentimental lyricism, to stress the vitality and militancy of the music. Says Andre: "In my conviction, Chopin is not a sentimentalist. On the contrary when I am at the piano I feel his power and anguished revolutionary might." After a series of concerts in Rome, Wasowski will play in Amsterdam. To any American he meets, he says: "How can I get to the United States...
Last week Van Meegeren had been cleared of collaboration but not of forgery. He was out on bail, painting new pictures, signing his own name to them, and collecting heavily. Connoisseurs were beating a path to Van Meegeren's antiques-crammed mansion on an Amsterdam canal. His own paintings brought five times what they had before he confessed. Van Meegeren said he had an offer from a Manhattan gallery to come to the U.S. and paint portraits "in the 17th Century manner" at $6,000 a throw...
...Writers," says Bruno Frank in one of the ten short stories that compose this collection, "know one another as a banker in Amsterdam knows about one in Milan." The American public knew Germany's Bruno Frank (who died in Hollywood in 1945) principally through novels like The Persians Are Coming, but Frank's fellow writers in Europe knew his many plays and novels as well as they knew Stefan Zweig's and Lion Feuchtwanger...
Three hundred years did the rest. Daylight turned to yellow torchlight or faded out altogether. Some of Captain Cocq's men vanished into the night. Visitors to Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum praised the painting to the skies for its golden glow, its mysterious, impenetrable shadows. Reportedly it was Sir Joshua Reynolds who dubbed it "Night Watch," and the name stuck...