Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lately some humanists have felt an urge to formalize their beliefs. Last week, in the quiet lecture halls of the University of Amsterdam, 250 delegates from Europe and the U.S. met for the first International Congress on Humanism and Ethical Culture. In the auditorium, a British lady asked her Dutch neighbor how humanism was doing in the U.S. "I don't think they're strong in numbers," was the reply, "but there's a lot of humanist spirit there. They put 'In God We Trust' on their pennies, but I think they put more faith...
...Netherlands, which has produced some of the world's finest painters, has also produced some of the finest fakers of old masters. *Partly for fun and partly to show the public "what the essence of a work of art is," Amsterdam's experts decided two years ago to stage a "Fake and Genuine" exhibition. The Municipal Museum began collecting as many fake paintings as it could find...
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. How eight Jews escaped the Gestapo for two years by hiding in an Amsterdam office building; recorded in the memorable journal of a teen-ager (TIME, June...
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. How eight Jews escaped the Gestapo for two years by hiding in an Amsterdam office building, recorded in the memorable journal of a teen-age girl (TIME, June...
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. How eight Jews escaped the Gestapo for two years by hiding in an Amsterdam office building; recorded in the memorable journal of a teen-age girl who later died in Belsen (TIME, June...