Word: holland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though the originality of his early compositions drew high praise from Critic Romain Holland (Jean-Christophe). it was not until he was 35 that Bloch got into his stride as a composer of distinctly Jewish music, began to color his music with scales and intervals derived from ancient synagogal hymns. In 1916 a tour as conductor of a dance troupe took him to the U. S., stranded him in Manhattan. Since then he has made the U. S. his home. He began to write his most important works in the early 1920s while serving as director of the Cleveland Institute...
...members of the crew of the Holland-America liner Rotterdam is a Communist, refused last week in Manhattan to sign the crew's round-robin message of congratulation to Crown Princess Juliana of The Netherlands on the birth of her first child (TIME, Feb. 7). Explained other members of the crew afterward: "We popped that Communist stoker on the nose. The Rotterdam is a royalist ship...
...Portugal, terrified villagers rushed through the streets shouting "0 firn do mundo!" (the end of the world). In war-minded France, the cry was "C'est la guerre!" In Austria and elsewhere in Europe, kneeling peasants gibbered prayers. In Holland, merry celebrants hailed the vast curtains of red, orange, purple, green, blue and white light shifting and shimmering in the northern sky as a happy omen for the delivery of Princess Juliana (see p. 77). In London, which had not seen the aurora borealis since the dire night of a Zeppelin raid during the War, someone, thinking that Windsor...
Clifford M. Holland awards were given to James D. Lightbody, Jr. '40 of Glencoe, Illinois, who is also the holder of the Charles E. Rogers scholarship, and to James R. Muenger '39, of Toledo, Ohio, who is also the holder of the Henry Ware Clarke scholarship...
...second half, more heavily documented, is slower going. Here, except for a brilliant account of U. S. town-building, Miriam Beard's contribution is to compare the achievements of Vanderbilt, Gould, Morgan, Rockefeller with those of Fugger, Colbert, or the Bickers of Holland; to measure familiar swindles and honest accomplishments against ancient examples. U. S. millionaires compare well in both respects with their predecessors. Squelched at first by the landed gentry, then by Southern aristocrats, U. S. businessmen wielded their power openly only for a brief period after the Civil War, until their corporations grew so vast that "like...