Word: amsterdamers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Civil libertarians, like University of Pennsylvania Law Professor Anthony Amsterdam, feel that the court has "turned a corner," and that from now on the balance will shift against criminal defendants and civil rights demonstrators. But the new-found moderation might be better read as an indication that many cases now reaching the court are no longer as clearly in violation of its reading of the Constitution. The court activists, who used to find themselves most often in the majority of 5-4 decisions, now increasingly lose at least one of their number to the re-strainers. The man whom most...
...major Lichtenstein retrospective, with 78 paintings, kinetic plaques, banners, drawings, prints and posters, was unveiled at the Pasadena Art Museum in April, opens at the Minneapolis Walker Art Center this week. Then half the works will move on to Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum, to be joined by Lichtensteins owned in Europe. As the exhibit illustrates, high craftsmanship and an uncommon wit are his hallmarks, for the show abounds with humorous and satirical jabs at painters past and present (see color opposite...
Financial Juggles. The son of a successful lawyer, Abs forsook law studies at Bonn University to learn banking in Cologne, Amsterdam, Paris, London and New York. At 36, his grasp of international finance led to his appointment as head of the Deutsche Bank's foreign department. Though inevitably involved in the financial juggles of the Hitler regime, Abs did not join the Nazi Party and at the end of World War II quietly retired to his Rhineland estate. Tapped in 1948 to run the agency that distributed Marshall Plan credit to German industry, Abs soon became a close adviser...
...first Erasmus Lecturer will be J.Q. Regterem Altena, professor of Art at the University of Amsterdam. He will come to Harvard for a term next year. Future lecturers could include experts on any aspect of Netherlands civilization...
This week, to celebrate its tenth birth day, TEE puts its plush new Rembrandt onto the daily run between Amsterdam and Munich. Passengers relax in form-hugging, foam-rubber seats while a blurred landscape speeds past the vast picture windows...