Word: bols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...orchestra invited the audience to pick the second half of the program from 23 classics. Among them were the Mahler First Symphony and Beethoven's Third, Fifth, Seventh and Eighth. Even though the audience was composed largely of supposedly hip students, the winners were Ravel's hoary Boléro and Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet overture...
Rembrandt, and his gifted student Ferdinand Bol, evidence the skill of the Dutch in graphics and printmaking. With precision and clarity of lines, cross-hatching to illustrate the play of light among the characters, these two Netherlandish artists evoke the spirit and personality of Blind Tobit and of Woman in the Window with a Pear, finely etched with pear-shaped curves...
Their rallying cry was Ralbol!-a contraction of the slang expression On en a ras le bol, meaning "We're fed up to the gills." Their complaint: a system that stuffs students into facilities that are often grimly overcrowded, and an outmoded curriculum that rates rote learning over lively thinking...