Word: amsterdamers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After long years of studying chimpanzees, University of Amsterdam Zoologist Adriaan Kortlandt, 49, is convinced that they do not live up to their full potential. Although chimps in captivity often construct crude shelters and mimic many of man's other activities, their behavior in the wild seems far less advanced. Since they are endowed with many human-like qualities, Kortlandt asks, "why have chimpanzees in the course of their evolution not achieved a more human way of life and a corresponding level of culture...
...Amsterdam, The Netherlands...
...Harlem's ideal of democracy. Negro Author (Manchild in the Promised Land) Claude Brown, an old friend of Meredith, called him "an ass, an absolute ass." Said Jackie Robinson, a Republican and a civil rights moderate: "No self-respecting Negro should have involved himself in this thing." The Amsterdam News, the Negro weekly, bannered: NEGRO REPUBLICANS OUTRAGED. In Harlem there was open talk of assassination-and in view of the 1958 attempt on Martin Luther King's life and the 1965 murder of Malcolm X, the threat to Meredith could not be disregarded...
...commercial prominence of the Netherlands in the seventeenth century made Amsterdam the major market place for the sale of world art. It also provided the nutrient for the greatest flowering of Dutch culture...
...monarchs, had no counter-part in the Netherlands, and hence almost no monumental works were commissioned. But unlike anywhere else in Europe, the popularity of art among Dutch artisans and merchants supported a large number of artists producing small works in great abundance and variety. Englishman Peter Mundy, visiting Amsterdam in 1640, wrote...