Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Official Ralph Bunche, retired Baseball Star Jack Robinson and A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, urging the Administration to stand pat for a strong bill. From such leading Negro newspapers as the Norfolk Journal and Guide and New York's Amsterdam News came outspoken criticism of the N.A.A.C.P. leaders who had agreed to the weak bill. Said the Amsterdam News: "When we find the N.A.A.C.P.'s Secretary, Roy Wilkins, sleeping in the same political bed with [Mississippi's] Senator Eastland we be, gin to wonder about Mr. Wilkins...
Somehow McEwen had talked London's National Gallery, Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, Paris' Louvre and other museums into parting with 200 treasures-Rembrandts, Cezannes, Picassos, etc.-for a Rhodesian show. The 200 oils and more than that number of graphic art pieces were flown across the equator in five well-packed planeloads. Said McEwen: "It is unlikely that such a show will ever be seen again in Africa because of the difficulties and the reluctance of overseas galleries to allow valuable works of art to travel so far afield...
...exaggerate the artistic value of her performance. When Miss Rosalyn Tureck plays Bach, all talk about the necessity of having a harpsichord to recapture Bach's style seems little short of nonsense." The Tablet: "Without doubt, the greatest Bach pianist of today." After last week's performance, Amsterdam's Algemeen Handelsblad said: "One could exhaust oneself in expressions of praise . . . Her interpretation sets a new norm, a standard for the style in which Bach deserves to be played today...
Attending the opening of a scientific display in Amsterdam, Queen Juliana of the Netherlands stopped before a complicated calculating machine. The operator informed her that the gadget could follow instructions, but could not think. Thinking hard herself, Her Majesty was silent, then delivered the considered royal opinion: "Fortunate...
...Adopting evolution as his religion, Mondrian made a cult of the new, preferred man-made scenery to nature, turned his back on the Bois de Boulogne to avoid seeing the trees, furiously danced the Charleston (when The Netherlands banned it, he announced that he would never return home to Amsterdam). His ascetic dryness kept women at a distance. The only feminine touch in his studio was an artificial tulip, surrounded by leaves painted white...