Word: hollande
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subject that has fascinated Myles Standish Weston of TIME'S Promotion Department since he was eleven years old. At that time, to settle an argument about the German Kaiser's responsibility for starting World War I, he wrote to Kaiser Wilhelm at his postwar refuge in Holland. In reply Weston received a packet of propaganda which said that the Kaiser not only had not started the war, he hadn't even lost it. This line of reasoning failed to impress Weston, but the Prussian royal arms on the Kaiser's letterhead did. That started...
...dozen and Sam Weller could comment truthfully on the "wery remarkable circumstance,' sir, that poverty and oysters always seem to go together." Today only the rich can afford oysters. The best Colchesters cost 16s. ($3.20) a dozen, Whitstable natives IDS. to 125. ($2 to $2.40), imported oysters from Holland and Brittany...
...dance also raised temperatures at the Holland Music Festival, where Negro Dancer Katherine Dunham & company last week presented her torrid Caribbean Rhapsody. The Dutch had never seen anything quite like her. Dancer Dunham did not wear a pearl in her navel (as she did in Tropical Revue), but some of the audience were nevertheless overcome by all the pelvic commotion, hesitated in bewilderment before applauding. Most of the audience, however, got the idea: they were seeing precise dancing and brilliant choreography. The Dutch critics were two-minded about her. Wrote one: "Mostly it is sheer vitality, but sometimes sheer corn...
...took a national military defeat and four years of German rule to make the Dutch take grand opera and like it. It was not that Holland had plugged its dikes against all music: it has long had fine Bach societies and a great symphony orchestra, the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam. But to the restrained Dutch, opera had long seemed worldly and overemotional...
...things the Dutch learned to like about the Germans was their zeal for opera. The Germans started a Dutch opera with native singers and musicians and the Dutch loved it. At war's end, they decided to keep it. Last week, at Holland's third annual music festival in Amsterdam and Scheveningen, music lovers saw the decision magnificently justified. The new Netherlands Opera gave as fine a performance of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice as had been heard in years. The cast got a dozen curtain calls and a standing ovation from happy Am-sterdamers and their...