Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...richest dukedom, spilling from the Alps to the Zuider Zee. Beefy burghers, dressed in furs and velvet, thronged its towns, paid out hard silver for the works of its artists and craftsmen. Last week a sparkling display of the things they bought drew 11,000 visitors to Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum. The armor, jewelry, tapestries, illuminated manuscripts, furniture, banners and polychromed sculptures on show reflect one of the most sumptuous eras of all time...
Painting a prelate's portrait is not quite like painting an ordinary man, wrote Dutch Art Critic Jan Engelman in his Amsterdam newspaper last week. It needs a special approach. Before even meeting his prelate, said Engelman, the painter should study him carefully-family background, personality, ecclesiastical career. Only then should he try to picture a man who is at once "a high-placed person, a compassionately spiritual father, a sturdy ruler, an immovably insular person, a religious power, a lonely...
...garden . . . We enter by an unassuming little gate: the Symphony in D [K.84] of the 14-year-old Mozart." The guide on this all-Mozart stroll last week was Benjamin Britten, 37, one of Britain's most highly rated composers (Peter Grimes). But the Holland Festival audience in Amsterdam's Concertgebouw was in for a grievous disappointment: not only did Benjy stray off the path; he tromped on the flowers...
...nine weeks Theresa Cohen, Hemisphere Researcher, covered a lot of territory. Baggage stickers for only her major stops would read something like this: Le Havre, Paris, Cannes, Rome, Florence, Venice, Interlaken, Paris, London, Amsterdam, Copenhagen and, again, London. Along the way she was able to find time for visits at TIME'S European bureaus, where she picked up her mail from home, parked extra luggage and got knowing advice about where & how to travel. Her experiences ranged all the way from a climb up Mont Chevalier to a glimpse of the royal family in London. "It was," she says...
...atomic energy research, last week wound up his brief and mystery-cloaked visit (TIME, June 4). After spending four days at the Huemul Island laboratories, he flew back to Buenos Aires for a little chat with President Perón, then hurried home. Back in Amsterdam, the professor said that Perón's atomic expert, Austrian-born Dr. Ronald Richter, was not under arrest when he was there, but refused to discuss Richter's research work. Then he went into seclusion to prepare a report for his government...