Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Meegeren died about a month after the trial, and last week his remaining paintings went up for auction. Together with his Amsterdam house and furniture, they brought only 242,000 guilders as against creditors' claims of some 5,000,000 guilders ($1,315,800). One of the highest bids, $800, was for a seventh "Vermeer" entitled Christ in the Temple, which Van Meegeren had painted after his confession (see cut) to prove to some still unconvinced experts that he had actually forged the previous ones...
Said Lucia Chase, "We realize this is what they want from us, but sometimes we wish they would let us do a little more classical ballet just to show what we can do." There would be plenty of chance elsewhere: Ballet Theatre still has Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, Rome, Milan, Venice, Alexandria and Cairo on its calling list...
Visiting mathematicians lived in the Houses and ate in the Union for the seven days beginning August 30. At the close of the sessions they scheduled the next congress for Amsterdam, Holland...
...spring night in 1889, a young man named Bernard Shaw sat in an Amsterdam theater watching the first performance of an opera by a Dutch composer named Simon van Milligen. In his report to the London Star, perspicacious young "Corno di Bassetto" (Shaw's pen name) was kind to the opera, but hooted at the company director's curtain speech about the triumphant establishment of a great national school of opera...
...first-rate Dutch sopranos, Louise de Vries (Philomela) and Greet Koeman (the sister) singing roles that were powerful, dramatic and sometimes rhapsodic. When the curtain came down, the jampacked audience was not quite sure whether it had seen the dawn of a "great national school." But, said one Amsterdam University professor: "This evening was very encouraging...