Word: delft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...competent portrayer of Dutch domestic scenes (The Rebel Generation, The House of Joy), Authoress van Ammers-Küller in her latest novel gives an account of life in her native Delft early in the 20th Century. Beginning her tale with something of the ordered, crystalline detail of Dutch interior paintings, she ends it in cloudy emotional confusion and disillusionment...
Social life in Delft is symbolized by the "Lustrum" celebrations, a masquerade carnival held every five years. Everybody takes this pageant very seriously. The actors try to follow orders "to give the impression that we really are what we want to represent." On stage and off this is what the younger generation is taught to do. Tina van Ravensberg would rather try to represent what she really is, but there is no room for that sort of thing in her society...
...History". Koht has served in the Norwegian parliament. From France will come Andre Leconte as professor of Architecture and Edmond Joachim Vermell, professor of German Literature at the University of Strasbourg, both to serve during the second half year. Jan Arnoldus Schouten, professor in the Technische Hooge school of Delft, who will lecture on Mathematics during the first half year, is one of the foremost Dutch geometers...
...Author. Jo Van Ammers-Küller, foremost Dutch novelist, was born in Delft (famed for ceramics and Painter Jan Van Delft Vermeer) of a family of doctors and lawyers. Her early writings awoke parental anxiety. At 20 she married, discontinued writing until her two sons were in school. When her husband became director of the Leyden gas works she began to write again. Charming, accomplished linguist, learned in stage lore, she wrote plays, novels, about actresses. Visiting the U. S. in 1925 she saw enough to write of U. S. family life in Tantalus. Other books in translation: The House...