Word: holland
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Albert E. Holland and Fe del Mundo first met in the internment camp at Manila's Santo Tomas University in early 1942, just after the city had fallen to the Japanese. Fresh from the well-fed U.S. business colony there, he was still a husky 195-pounder, determined to talk the camp authorities into improving the lot of his fellow internees. She was tiny and frail, only 5 ft. 1 in. and under 90 lbs., a Filipino doctor with a brand-new practice. Dr. del Mundo, who had received much of her medical training in the U.S., was determined...
Working with Holland, Dr. del Mundo got 400 U.S. and Allied children out of the camp and cared for them as long as the Japanese would let her. Then the following year the Japanese cracked down, herded Dr. del Mundo's patients back into Santo Tomas, and denied her access to them. The last time she saw Holland, he was down to a skeletal 95 Ibs. For most of the next 23 years, neither heard anything of the other. She thought he had probably died of starvation; he thought the Japanese had probably executed...
...just a few hours of practice, a neophyte can tootle Yankee Doodle, and in a matter of weeks he can play duets. On the other hand, real expertise is as difficult to achieve on the recorder as it is on the violin. There are only a handful of virtuosos: Holland's Frans Bruggen, Germany's Hans-Martin Linde and the U.S.'s Bernard Krainis and LaNoue Davenport...
...computers are concerned," complained the Czech magazine Kulturní Tvorba, "we are still living in primeval times. We are 50 times worse than the U.S., 15 times worse than West Germany and Scandinavia, ten times worse than Britain, France, Holland and other countries...
...field should be expanded. On the senior faculty three to five new chairs should be created. The gapeing holes in Government, modern Latin American history, and the History of Art should be filled. With regard to the junior faculty, funds must be secured to replace the Ford and Holland grants. Harvard is finding it increasingly difficult to hold junior faculty members. One solution is to provide faculty research grants and to allow one-half teaching loads. The expanded faculty in the area would make such a reduction in teaching loads possible...