Word: amsterdamers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Janeiro and Tokyo, student activists study the sit-in and seizure tactics that U.S. students used to protest the war, to desegregate Southern lunch counters and to immobilize the University of California in 1964. When television carries pictures of students demonstrating in London or Manhattan, students in Amsterdam and Prague start marching...
Brown, his face drawn and nearly milky pale, and Carmichael, in a blue pin-striped suit, led a crowd of 200 junior high and high school youths on a charge from Amsterdam Avenue, through police lines, and onto the besieged campus...
...sinuous ballerina Willy de la Bije as the most languid odalisque ever to scratch herself where it itches. Most ambitious American entry is Glen Tetley's The Anatomy Lesson, which takes as its starting point Rembrandt's famous painting of the white-ruffed, black-hatted surgeons of Amsterdam, solemnly posed around the dissecting table with its pallid corpse. In Tetley's version, the naked corpse (danced by Jaap Flier) suddenly twitches, sits up, leaps off the table, and begins to dance his yearning for his lost life with his wife, his mother, his childhood playmates. Tetley...
...Easter vacation in southern Germany and went back to Bonn, where he warned the students to calm down or face the consequences. Meanwhile, in a display of the intertwining relationships between the young European radicals, students staged riots of varying degrees of violence in Rome, Paris and Amsterdam. At week's end, taking advantage of West Germany's troubles, the East German Communist regime issued an ominous warning that it was now barring all senior Bonn officials from traveling to and from West Berlin through its territory. It was a clear threat to West Berlin's most...
...Thomas P. F. Hoving dropped the word recently that the Met was planning to "reattribute" several of its Rembrandts, there was a gasp from museumgoers. Fake Rembrandts at the Metropolitan, of all places? It seemed altogether too shocking to be believed. But art scholars in Rembrandt's own Amsterdam, London and Paris scarcely blinked at the news. Like every other great museum, the Met is constantly in the process of re-evaluating and recataloguing the entire collection of paintings, and in fact the current examination of its 31 Rembrandt oils, one of the world's three largest collections...