Word: holland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jackson Pollock used synthetic Duco lacquers in the late '40s and early '50s. One of the first celebrated artists to rely wholly on synthetics was Holland's Hans van Meegeren, who used them to paint equally synthetic Vermeers in the 1930s. Since new oil paint can be distinguished from old in a simple laboratory test, the forger used a heat-setting resin to avoid detection...
...Author Aronson points out, had "an almost primitive sense of Corsican clannishness," and it led him to elevate his four brothers and three sisters to positions in the Empire that they were ludicrously unsuited to fill. After Austerlitz, for instance, he made his misanthropic brother Louis King of Holland; Brother Joseph became King of Naples; Brother Jérôme became King of Westphalia; Sisters Elisa, Caroline and Pauline received various duchies in Italy; and Napoleon's widowed mother became Son Altesse Impériale Madame la Mère de l'Empereur. Napoleon gave them...
...GOLDEN AGE OF THE ORGAN (2 LPs; Columbia). E. Power Biggs goes on a busman's holiday in Germany and Holland, playing with artistry the twelve surviving baroque organs of Master Builder Arp Schnitger (1648-1719). The tones of Schnitger's organs are exceptionally bright and buoyant, wrong for the romantics but wonderful for the music Biggs plays: Bach (including the Dorian Toccata and Fugue in D Minor) and chorale preludes by the modern Berlin composer Ernst Pepping...
...than the WORLD BUSINESS story "Doctors of Development." Work on this report of the activities and powers of economists around the world was begun some three weeks ago, involved 35 interviews by correspondents in 15 countries. One of the economists who was a source for the story was Holland's Jan Tinbergen, who had never before granted an interview to the press. When TIME's correspondent was leaving after their talk, the economist said: "If you really are going to have an article in TIME, please mention my wife. Her name is Tine de Wit. She has supported...
...disproved not only the composer's supposed grand love affair with the Countess Giulietta Guicciardi but also alliances with many of the ladies with whom the sentimental 19th century liked to link his name. Factually, Thayer was rarely wrong (although he assumed the Beethoven family had come from Holland, whereas later research indicates it came from Belgium). Incredibly, a whole generation of biographers had accepted Dec. 16, 1772 as the date of Beethoven's birth until Thayer established it as occurring two years earlier, thus clearing up a series of chronological contradictions that had plagued students...